The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
- 366pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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 This volume features new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works.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 Livres
Cet anthropologue, né à Rio de Janeiro en 1951, est considéré comme l'un des principaux spécialistes internationaux des groupes ethniques indigènes brésiliens. Ses recherches approfondies portent sur leurs cultures et leurs pensées, notamment sur son idée de 'perspectivisme'. L'auteur explore la manière dont ces cultures perçoivent le monde et la réalité, ainsi que leur vision des êtres humains et non humains. Son œuvre offre un aperçu profond de la diversité de la pensée humaine et de la complexité des sociétés indigènes.
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
- 229pages
- 9 heures de lecture
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.
