Name: Edison Romera Júnior
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 19/07/2017
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro | Advisor * |
| Antonio Vidal Nunes | External Alternate * |
| Marcelo Fetz de Almeida | Internal Examiner * |
| Márcia Barros Ferreira Rodrigues | Internal Alternate * |
| Marcos Ferreira da Costa Lima | External Examiner * |
Summary: ABSTRACT
I analyze the theoretical commitment of the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997), who pioneered the development of a decolonizing epistemological perspective of knowledge production, in the effort to broaden our understanding of the history of humanity in the last ten thousand years. I propose an examination of Darcy's work, more precisely from his book The civilizing process: stages of sociocultural evolution, originally published in 1968 and inaugurating his Studies of Anthropology of Civilization‟, which has materialized an anticolonial and alternative history of humanity. Thus, I intend to present the contributions of Darcy Ribeiro, as an intellectual of his time, in the construction of an autonomous 'anthropophagic' and epistemological approach. I argue that the Brazilian anthropologist initiates a revision of the theories of sociocultural evolution in order to properly include American societies especially Latin American societies in a human history not restricted to the Euro-Northwest theoretical horizon. In other words, I highlight the appeal contained in Darcy's work to a universal‟ antagonistic to the Eurocentric model, which is therefore unilateral, which would otherwise result in repeating the mistakes of the settlers. But by overcoming them, it includes other epistemic specificities, favoring an innovative theoretical perspective. Thus, it is important to demonstrate that Darcy‟s thinking, in an epistemic perspective, has the capacity to speak not only about its own Latin American context, but opens up new spaces of criticism and debate about global modern dilemmas and issues, as well as It is important to realize the extent to which their epistemic efforts continue to be emblematic of the production of hermeneutic models of our modernities. Therefore, it is a bibliographical and theoretical research whose investigation is based on the review of the literature around the work The civilizatory process. As for the results, the Darwinian theory is valued as one of the most significant precursors of the descolonial gyro‟ that is currently in Latin America, being able to make possible new perspectives of studies oriented to the expansion of the canons of Social Sciences.
Keywords: Darcy Ribeiro; The Civilizing Process; Geopolitics of Knowledge; Descolonial Turn; Contemporary Social Theories.
