ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE GIFT IN GRANDE SERTÃO: VEREDAS

Abstract

This article proposes, from a dialogue between the science of religion and literature, to offer subsidies for the study of the relationship between Brazilian literature and religion. For this, it starts from an open and functional definition of religion, and considers that, in their own way, religion and literature are symbolic expressions of human experience in its understanding of the world. As an example, it examines the relationship between religion and literature in the novel Grande Sertão: veredas, by Guimarães Rosa, having as reference the work of researcher Ursulina Santana, which allows us to understand the presence, in the novel, of an anthropology of the gift, based on from the analysis of the sacralization of food, perceived as a divine gift, establishing bonds of solidarity, hospitality and commensality between people.