Kubiaczyk, Filip2013-12-032013-12-032013Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, 7/2013, s. 7-31978-83-7654-166-22082-5951http://hdl.handle.net/10593/8712The article addresses the problem of the coloniality of perception, or visual-semantic manipulation of racial context which accompanied the development of the modern/ colonial capitalism. In this regard, I demonstrate that the gure of cannibal as a cultural trope played a key role in the symbolic appropriation of the New World by the Europeans, which paved the way for its military, political and economic conquest. By drawing on the source accounts, I show how the cannibal trope changed its geographical and semantic range, arranging the colonial discourse on the Other.enthe OthercannibalismcannibalCannibaliadifferenceanthropophagythe New Worldcartographycultural tropeArtykuł