
Cannibal Metaphysics
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro(Author)
Peter Skafish(Editor)
Univocal Publishing LLC
Published on 1. December 2014
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229 pages
978-1-937561-21-5 (ISBN)
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The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its \u201contological turn,\u201d offers a vision of anthropology as \u201cthe practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.\u201d 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 \u201cother\u201d 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 L\u00e9vi-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\u2019s current return to the theoretical center stage.
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English
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Minneapolis
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
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978-1-937561-21-5 (9781937561215)
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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Peter Skafish is Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Anthropology Department at McGill University.
Peter Skafish is Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Anthropology Department at McGill University.