Geophagy is the will or habit of eating land. Some parrots eat red clay in an act of self-\u00a0medication. A Yanomami myth begins like this: "This is the story of our ancestors who\u00a0gradually multiplied. It begins at a time when there were no Yanomami like today. The\u00a0earth-eaters suffered because they ate land. We would also almost have suffered, like\u00a0earthworms, to dig the earth and drink clay wine, if it were not for the events that\u00a0follow\u201d. The colonial model, implemented by Portugal in the sixteenth century, is\u00a0intrinsically linked to the development of a vision of land as a particular materiality, a\u00a0property of a possessive nature used for very precise purposes: the extraction of\u00a0natural resources and private property. With the colonial settlement, Portugal literally\u00a0ate the land of the native people, and also ate their vision of the land, their ways of\u00a0living and thinking with their feet on the ground. Much is said about the glorious act of\u00a0navigation, but here we proposed to remember that for many people the Portuguese\u00a0were great "land eaters", in a gesture closer to an eating disorder than to medicine.<\/p>\n
“Geophagia\u201d was invited to participate in the NAU! Project, a co-production ofTEP with Cultura em Expans\u00e3o (program of the Department of Culture of the Porto City Council). Geofagia won the Artists Contest organized by the VII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology in 2018 and was presented during the congress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cat_rita_natalio":[61],"cat_projectos":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_rita_natalio\/2231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_rita_natalio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_rita_natalio"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_rita_natalio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_rita_natalio?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"cat_projectos","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_projectos?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}