anthropophagist

Etymology

From anthropophagy + -ist.

Why this word is great

ANTHROPOPHAGIST — [Noun] A cannibal or one who advocates a 'cannibalistic' approach to cultural appropriation, as per the Manifesto Antropófago. From anthropophagy (Greek anthrōpos, "human" + phagein, "to eat") + -ist (agent suffix). Unlike "cannibal" (a general term for one who consumes human flesh, devoid of ideological weight) or "syncretist" (one who blends cultures with deference), the anthropophagist devours to transform, ingesting the foreign not to assimilate but to dominate. It is the Tupinambá warrior consuming his enemy’s strength, the modernist poet stealing Europe’s forms to forge a Brazilian avant-garde, or the capitalist swallowing whole traditions only to excrete them as kitsch—a reminder that consumption, even when framed as homage, is never neutral.

noun

A cannibal.“The want of food became so urgent, that flesh was torn from dead human bodies; children were strangled by their parents, for the purpose of feasting on their flesh; and bands of express anthropophagists traversed the whole country.”
A follower or representative of the Manifesto Antropófago of Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet; one who advocates a "cannibalistic" attitude towards the appropriation of European culture.“The anthropophagists were out to celebrate life. They rejected the oppressive theories of Freud and advocated a reality "sem complexos, sem loucura, sem prostituições" ("Manifesto antropófago", Revista de Antopofagia, I) ["without complexes, without madness, without prostitutions"].”