التهام الآخر: الأنثروبوفاجيا من منظور الحداثة وما بعدها

Abstract EN

In this article, the researchers strive to shed light on an essential issue in the anthropological studies which is the anthropophage, also called cannibalism.

Therefore, the focus was on how to break the clichés of brutality that the colonial discourse inflicted on both Latin and oriental people.

Not to mention our attempt to transcend notions of literal eating-as a biological need through which man strives to survive- to devouring notions with symbolic dimensions and current metaphors, that are related to modernity and post-modernity issues and remnants, as well as related frameworks of power, domination, exploitation and termination.

Accordingly, the main purpose was based on a fundamental enquiry that is how to remove cannibalism from being a strange phenomenon that contradicts human nature meeting rejection and denial, to the recognition that it is a phenomenon carrying within it suitable seeds to implant new concepts and new knowledge foundations which subvert dedicated cognitive arrangements, in addition to the adoption of a new awareness that believes in the human being's sanctity and the world's spirituality.