Vingança e temporalidade: os Tupinamba

Revenge and time : the Tupinamba. At the heart of Tupinamba society, there is revenge, say the authors. Cannibalism is part of a logic of absolute revenge, where anthropophagie consumption is but the association of all to the process of revenge. Revenge can be exerted beyond the historical dispa rition of cannibalism per se, because it is more fundamental than the latter. It is indeed the guarantee of social memory, articulating the dead of the past to the dead of the future through the living. The authors then sketchily compare this society geared onto temporality with the Gê and Tukano (Vaupés) societies, and end up by a reflection on the place of historicity in this society.