THE NOTION OF SYNCRETISM REVISED BY THE ZILBERBERG’S CONCEPT OF MESTIZAJE

Abstract

This article revisits the concept of syncretism of Hjelmslev (1975), Greimas, Courtés (1983) and Floch (2007) and aims at brief review of this theoretical problem. However, for a refinement of the theory, one cannot fail to consider the importance of the text of Zilberberg (2004) on miscegenation. By the assumption that the syncretism takes place gradually, in a succession de tensive positions, and based on the terminology of this author on the study of the mixture, which goes of the mix to screening, of separation to fusion, of the bizarre to boredom, we examine how the syncretism, merger pursuant of zilberberg, allowed us to verify that the space of utterance of Território de bravos is a tensive space in which contradictory and contrary notice is uninterrupted.