Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro during the Kantorowicz Lecture 2017 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro (born April 19, 1951 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian anthropologist and lecturer at the Brazilian National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro .

His publications are of great importance in Brazilian anthropology and in the ethnology of the indigenous peoples of America , including: Amazônia: etnologia e história indígena and A inconstância da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia .

Viveiros de Castro has taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , the University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge . He made significant contributions to the development of the idea of Indian perspectivism ( perspectivismo ameríndo , perspectivismo amazônica ).

Publications

• 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, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2004.
• A Inconstância da alma selvagem , Cosac Naify, São Paulo, 2nd edition 2011.
  • The impermanence of the wild soul , from the Brazilian Portuguese by Oliver Precht, Turia + Kant 2016, ISBN 978-3851328363 .
• 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, ISBN 978-3-7757-3085-3 .
• Métaphysiques cannibales , from the Brazilian Portuguese by Oiara Bonilla, Paris 2009, PUF, ISBN 978-2130578116 .
  • Cannibal Metaphysics , from the French by Peter Skafish, Minneapolis (Minn.) 2014, Univocal Publishing, ISBN 978-1517905316 .
  • Metafísicas canibais , São Paulo 2015, n-1 edições.
  • Cannibal metaphysics , from the Brazilian Portuguese by Theresa Mentrup, Berlin 2019, Merve , ISBN 978-3-88396-384-6 .
• with Deborah Danowski : Há Mundo Por Vir? Ensaio Sobre os Medos e os Fins, 2014, Cultura e Barbárie.
  • What world to live in ?: An experiment on the fear of the end , from the Portuguese by Clemens von Loyen and Ulrich von Loyen, Berlon 2019, Matthes & Seitz , ISBN 978-3957575661 .
  • The Ends of the World , translated by Rodrigo Nunes, Polity Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1509503988 .
• The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds , Hau - Special Collections in Ethnographic Theory 2015.

Web links

• Núcleo de Antropologia Simétrica