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Cannibal Metaphysics (Paperback)
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Cannibal Metaphysics (Paperback)
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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.
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