The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
- 366 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Presents a collection of essays and lectures of the author. This volume features new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Bücher
Dieser 1951 in Rio de Janeiro geborene Anthropologe gilt als einer der weltweit führenden Experten für brasilianische indigene Ethnien. Seine umfassende Forschung konzentriert sich auf deren Kulturen und Denkweisen, insbesondere auf das Konzept des „Perspektivismus“. Der Autor untersucht, wie diese Kulturen die Welt und die Realität wahrnehmen und welche Sichtweise sie auf menschliche und nicht-menschliche Wesen haben. Sein Werk bietet tiefe Einblicke in die Vielfalt menschlichen Denkens und die Komplexität indigener Gesellschaften.
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic D at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways.
Cannibal Metaphysics
- 229 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its "ontological turn," offers a vision of anthropology as "the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought." After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours--in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own--he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such "other" metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences. Along the way, he spells out the consequences of this anthropology for thinking in general via a major reassessment of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguments for the continued relevance of Deleuze and Guattari, dialogues with the work of Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, and Marilyn Strathern, and inventive treatments of problems of ontology, translation, and transformation. Bold, unexpected, and profound, Cannibal Metaphysics is one of the chief works marking anthropology's current return to the theoretical center stage.
