Sentence:  In his essay “Brazilian Anthropophagy Revisited,” Sérgio Bellei makes similar claims. He suggests that the <WSD>anthropophagists</WSD> have a kind of split consciousness, being aware of both the "superior" European culture and the material backwardness of their own culture; the "purpose" of the <WSD>anthropophagists</WSD>, according to Bellei, was to dissolve the borders between the two. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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.