The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
- 366 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
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 This volume features new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works.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 Knihy
Antropolog, který se narodil v Rio de Janeiru v roce 1951, je považován za jednoho z předních světových odborníků na brazilské domorodé etnické skupiny. Jeho rozsáhlý výzkum se zaměřuje na jejich kultury a myšlení, zejména pak na koncept „perspektivismu“. Autor zkoumá, jak tyto kultury vnímají svět a realitu a jaký je jejich pohled na lidskou a ne-lidskou bytost. Jeho dílo nabízí hluboký vhled do rozmanitosti lidského myšlení a do složitosti domorodých společností.
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 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
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.
