The stone and the book: epistemology questions in Embrace of the serpent

Authors

  • Fabio Camarneiro Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Abstract

Our aim is to analyze the film Embrace of the Serpent (2015) along with two texts: an essay by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and the novel Heart of Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad (1899). While the film depicts different encounters between indigenous people and white explorers, the texts help us to perceive how distinct epistemologies (the anthropologist’s and the native’s) are in action within these contacts. Far from Conrad’s novel example (in which the encounter represents the madness of the colonialist enterprise), Embrace of the Serpent is able to imagine a redemption, and the white man learning from the indigene.

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Author Biography

Fabio Camarneiro, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Professor adjunto no curso de Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo – UFES e doutor em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais pela Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo – ECA/USP

Published

2021-05-21