Abstract:
We study in Darcy Ribeiro’s thought his reception of the utopia of a Great Nation that gained more strength in the book Nuestra America, of José Martí. We intend to capture Ribeiro’s central argument, namely, its diagnosis of the causes of the uneven development in the subcontinent, which can serve to overcome a self-deprecating view that would see Latin America as an unfortunate reflection of the Northern modernity. We understand, from this perspective, Darcy Ribeiro as a participant of the intellectual movement that anticipates the “decolonial turn” by criticism of the hegemonic modern meta-narrative, so that his anthropology presents in an unprecedented manner the American people in the world’s civilizational process not as an outdated expression of a history already experienced by northern populations in past times, but as unique and concomitant ethnic conformations in modern capitalism.
Keywords:
Latin America; Intellectuals; Darcy Ribeiro; Great Nation; José Martí