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The relative native : essays on indigenous conceptual worlds /

This volume 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 U...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de (Autor)
Otros Autores: Wagner, Roy, 1938- (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Chicago, IL : Hau Books, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Methods. The relative native ; And ; Perspectival anthropology and the method of controlled equivocation ; Zeno and the art of anthropology : of lies, beliefs, paradoxes, and other truths
  • Part II. Virtual Kinship. Along the spider thread : virtuality, actualization, and the kinship process in Amazonia ; The gift and the given : three nano-essays on kinship and magic ; Immanence and fear : stranger-events and subjects in Amazonia
  • Part III. Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere. Preface to the lectures ; Cosmologies : perspectivism ; Culture : the universal animal ; Nature : the world as affect and perspective ; Supernature : under the gaze of the other
  • Afterword: Facts force you to believe in them; perspectives encourage you to believe out of them / by Roy Wagner.