La sensatez del conocimiento: saber, poscolonialidad y crítica ambiental en El abrazo de la serpiente de Ciro Guerra

Abstract

Embrace of the Serpent (2015), directed by Ciro Guerra, is a fictional appropriation of anthropo-scientific discourses on the Amazonian region developed by Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes in the first half of the twentieth century. The film subverts many of the political and cultural categories that have determined the representation of the region from a Western perspective. By including indigenous languages, myths, and stories, the film inscribes an indigenous sensibility that shows the complex colonial relationships that take place in Amazonia, thus opening a cultural and ecological debate about the region, its people, and its history.