Comparative Analysis: Russian Cultural Assimilation and Oswaldian Anthropophagy
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2026.245662Keywords:
Anthropophagy, Brazil, Cultural identity, RussiaAbstract
This article proposes a comparative analysis of identity formation in Brazil and Russia, using Oswald de Andrade’s concept of cultural anthropophagy as its theoretical axis. The metaphor of “critical devouring” serves as a consciously anachronistic heuristic tool, since the concept, developed in 20th-century Brazil, is retroactively applied to Russian debates dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The article acknowledges this anachronism as a constitutive limitation of the comparative proposal, while recognizing that both nations faced the common dilemma of assimilating external influences without losing their uniqueness, operating through distinct cultural processes of adaptation and identity creation embedded in their own historicity.
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