The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
Eduardo Viveiro de Castro
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Description for The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
Paperback. Presents a collection of essays and lectures of the author. This volume features new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works. Num Pages: 412 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere. Rounded out with new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works, the resulting book is a wide-ranging portrait of one of the towering figures of contemporary thought - philosopher, anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, and more. With a new ... Read more
This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere. Rounded out with new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works, the resulting book is a wide-ranging portrait of one of the towering figures of contemporary thought - philosopher, anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, and more. With a new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HAU
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780990505037
SKU
V9780990505037
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About Eduardo Viveiro de Castro
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is professor of social anthropology at the National Museum, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janerio and the author of many books.
Reviews for The Relative Native - Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro has emerged as a leading thinker on human-nonhuman relationships, and, through that, human-human ones. He is most famous for explaining the idea of perspectivism, an Indigenous Amazonian view which he concisely defines on pp. 229-230: the conception according to which the universe is inhabited by different sorts of persons, human and nonhuman, which apprehend reality ... Read more