Meanings
comparative more anthropophagic · superlative most anthropophagic
- Cannibalistic; man-eating.
They embody the anthropophagic attitude of tropicalismo: constantly changing and taking from the cosmos, yet always remaining rooted in themselves.
2007 September 30, Devendra Banhart, “From Uruguay’s Dylan to R. Kelly’s ‘Sex Planet’”, in New York Times1 more example
Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.
2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12
Origin
Translations
Italian antropofagico
- antropofagicoTranslations
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