Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro (born 1951) is a Brazilian

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and a professor at the National Museum of the

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. He has published many books and articles which are considered important in anthropology and in Americanist

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, among them: ''Cannibal Metaphysics'', ''From the enemy's point of view: humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society'', ''Amazônia: etnologia e história indígena'' ("The Amazon: Ethnology and Indigenous History" - coeditor with

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (born 1943) is a Portuguese-Brazilian anthropologist, who is known for her studies of indigenous people in Brazil. Early life and training Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha was born in Cascais, Portugal on 16 July 1 ...

), and ''A inconstância da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia'' ("The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul and other essays on Anthropology"). Born in

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, Viveiros de Castro taught at the ''

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'', the

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, and at the

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. Among his principal contributions is the understanding of Amerindian perspectivism. His works are among the key influences for the emergence of the

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in anthropology.

Publications in English

* ''From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society'', The University of Chicago Press (1992) * ''Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism'' in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4 (3), (1998) * ''Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies'' in Common Knowledge, vol. 1 (3), (2004) * ''Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation'' in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, vol 2 (1) (2004) * ''The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil'', Prickly Paradigm Press (2011)
''Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere''
Hau Masterclass Series (vol. 1) (2012) * ''Radical Dualism'', Hatje Cantz (2012) * ''Cannibal Metaphysics'', Univocal Publishing (2014) * ''The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds'', Hau - Special Collections in Ethnographic Theory (2015) * ''The Ends of the World'', with Déborah Danowski, Polity (2017)

References

External links

Núcleo de Antropologia Simétrica
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