Bodies, corpses, and food: cannibalism, commensalism and social organization in the Amazon

This article briefly revises the most recent academic discussions about amazonic anthropophagy attempting to frame that practice on a wider background that provides a meaning for the activity of human flesh eating; a semiotic background that carries the discussion beyond the sensible and relocates it among the symbolic forms of social construction. The Amazonic cannibalism works in different levels, making possible a concrete form of build identity, a socio-cosmical predation relationships and a specific way of generate, fortify and keep the kinship and family ties.