| Summary: | Conducts an investigation into identity in Latin America with an emphasis on the critical appropriation of tradition. It aims to think the construction of experiences of resistance in the manifestation of Capoeira Angola as part of the expression of Afro-Brazilian tradition and also experiences of resistance present in some indigenous groups of southeast Mexico as an Amerindian expression. This approach was conceptualized by what is here called afroamericalatinity. It is a dialogue that considers Afro-Latino plurality as a critical and creative force for the challenges of the contemporary world facing the interests and imprisonments of capitalism. The syntagm identity-morphing-emancipation developed by social psychologist Anthony da Costa Ciampa is the conceptual thread of this study that seeks to dialogue with contributions from Elias Canetti, Paul Ricoeur, Andre Comte-Sponville, François Julien, Subcomandante Marcos, Hampaté Bâ, Boaventura Souza Santos, and other thinkers considered as post-colonialists in Latin America. This investigation regarding the critical appropriation of tradition led to the affirmation of the individual's ability to freely choose to remain in the same tradition that reveals within itself contradictory, conflicting, and even oppressive elements. They are confrontations in order to understand the tradition as sameness, but also consider it as producing emancipatory meanings. It is to develop the ability to handle the disagreement which only seeks agreement, handling tradition as a possibility of space producer of affectivities with political and autonomous expressions. We seek, from a series of field observations in Brazil and Mexico, to note the ability to support the maintenance of tradition's residue in conflict with the emerging without rejecting it. It was of constant interest to investigate how what is conventionally called Latin America is investing in an emancipatory project considering its identity as metamorphosis.
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