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Translated and revised version of author's 1986 doctoral thesis, one of the most influential monographs in Brazilian ethnology of the last decade. Describes and interprets cosmology and social philosophy of the Arawetâe, a Tupi-Guarani people of eastern Amazonia, from the perspective of concepts of the person, death and eschatology, divinity, and systems of shamanism and warfare. The theme of divine cannibalism is treated as part of the complex of Tupi-Guarani ritual anthropophagy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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
LĂ©vi-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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Ailton Krenak - Encontros
Ailton Krenak; Prologue by Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
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R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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The Arawete are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have
maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive
forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study,
anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon
in terms of Arawete social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis
of the social and religious life of the Arawete--a Tupi-Guarani
people of Eastern Amazonia--focuses on their concepts of
personhood, death, and divinity.
Building upon ethnographic description and interpretation, Viveiros
de Castro addresses the central aspect of the Arawete's concept of
divinity--consumption--showing how its cannibalistic expression
differs radically from traditional representations of other
Amazonian societies. He situates the Arawete in contemporary
anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex,
tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for
its extraordinary openness to exteriority and transformation. For
the Arawete the person is always in transition, an outlook
expressed in the mythology of their gods, whose cannibalistic ways
they imitate. "From the Enemy's Point of View" argues that current
concepts of society as a discrete, bounded entity which maintains a
difference between "interior" and "exterior" are wholly
inappropriate in this and in many other Amazonian societies.
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