Sabiás divine: pathways from the Global South in linguistic anthropology

Abstract

The poet Manoel de Barros dedicated a great part of his work pointing out the limits of rationalism and, through poetry, proposed insurgencies. Therefore, the first topic of this article intends to theorize about the intrinsic coloniality of classical/hegemonic studies of language arising from the Western and European tradition, with its imperialist and anthropocentric principles embedded and consubstantial with linguistics. The second and third topic deals with some of the proposals of insurgency approaches throughout the history of linguistic theory through linguistic anthropology in contact with indigenous languages. Addressing the deprovincialization of language from its eurocentric bias highlights the ontological axes of differentiation between linguistic natures in the Global South. Thus, this article aims to rethink and deepen anthropological and linguistic discussions across the Global South, using the qualitative analysis of bibliographies as its main met