"anthropophagist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1819, “On Anthropophagism”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 41, page 215:",
          "text": "The want of food became so urgent, that flesh was torn from dead human bodies; children were strangled by their parents, for the purpose of feasting on their flesh; and bands of express anthropophagists traversed the whole country.",
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          "ref": "1884, Albert Samuel Gatschet, A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians:",
          "text": "The Atákapa of old were a well-made race of excellent hunters, but had, as their name indicates, the reputation of being anthropophagists (Cha'hta: hátak, hattak person, ápa to eat).",
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          "ref": "2002, Iwan Bloch, Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works:",
          "text": "The notorious anthropophagist, Blaize Ferrage, called Seyé, seemed to have served the Marquis as a model.",
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        "A cannibal."
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          "ref": "1996, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría, The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature:",
          "text": "The anthropophagists were out to celebrate life. They rejected the oppressive theories of Freud and advocated a reality \"sem complexos, sem loucura, sem prostituições\" (\"Manifesto antropófago\", Revista de Antopofagia, I) [\"without complexes, without madness, without prostitutions\"].",
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          "ref": "2012, Edwin Gentzler, Translation and Identity in the Americas:",
          "text": "In his essay “Brazilian Anthropophagy Revisited,” Sérgio Bellei makes similar claims. He suggests that the anthropophagists have a kind of split consciousness, being aware of both the \"superior\" European culture and the material backwardness of their own culture; the \"purpose\" of the anthropophagists, according to Bellei, was to dissolve the borders between the two.",
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          "ref": "2013, Bettina Papenburg, Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics:",
          "text": "Reversing the cultural cannibalism practiced by the colonisers, the anthropophagists, as de Andrade envisages them, adapt the strengths of European culture and 'incorporate [..] them into the native self'.",
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        "A follower or representative of the Manifesto Antropófago of Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet; one who advocates a \"cannibalistic\" attitude towards the appropriation of European culture."
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        "(Brazilian culture) A follower or representative of the Manifesto Antropófago of Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet; one who advocates a \"cannibalistic\" attitude towards the appropriation of European culture."
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