This article develops a democratized account of heterodoxy that draws attention to how heterodoxical discourses may implicitly arise through social interaction. The analysis is based on one rural Brazilian woman’s claim that it tastes better to eat beans and rice by using one’s fingers. Formerly common in Brazil prior to the 20th century—across identities, regions, and classes—the practice of “eating by hand” was gradually erased from public life, and reconstituted as a mark of non-whiteness, through what Norbert Elias described as a “civilizing process.” The woman’s claim registers as a heterodoxical response to hierarchized and racialized notions of taste arising from this process of historical erasure. The analysis draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory to situate the woman’s claim within a wider field of taste, while engaging with Hannah Arendt’s suggestion that aesthetic judgments may implicitly disclose shared and more equal worlds. Whereas Bourdieu’s famous account of heterodoxy focuses on leaders, experts, and spokespersons of the dominated skilled in the “work of making explicit,” the contribution draws on scholarship in analytic philosophy to argue that critical historical awareness may emerge in what philosophers of language and linguistic anthropologists call pragmatic presuppositions. The heterodoxical pragmatic presuppositions implicit in the woman’s claim conjure a notion of semiotic equality, which is disclosed as a defeasible presupposition of the ethnographic situation in which she makes her claim.

本文提出了关于异端的民主化描述，以引起人们对异端话语如何通过社会互动而隐含地产生的关注。该分析基于一位巴西农村妇女的说法，即味道更好用手指吃豆类和米饭。在20世纪之前，巴西人在不同的身份，地区和阶级之间普遍存在“手工进餐”的习惯，这种习惯在公共生活中逐渐被抹去，并被诺伯特·埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias）形容为非白人的标志。 “文明进程。” 该妇女的主张是对这种历史擦除过程中出现的等级和种族味觉观念的异质反应。该分析借鉴了皮埃尔·布迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）的实践理论，将女性的主张放在了更广阔的品味领域，同时又与汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）提出的审美判断可能隐含地揭示了共享且更加平等的世界有关。布迪厄（Bourdieu）著名的异端论着眼于领导者，专家，以及在“明确工作”中占主导地位的技术人员的代言人，他的贡献来自分析哲学领域的学者，他们认为，在语言哲学家和语言人类学家称之为实用预设的前提下，可能会出现批判的历史意识。女人的主张中隐含的异乎寻常的语用预设使人联想到符号学平等的观念，这被认为是对她提出主张的人种学境况的一种不可行的预设。