The relative native : essays on indigenous conceptual worlds /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de (Author)
Other Authors: Wagner, Roy, 1938- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Chicago, IL : Hau Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Ethnology > Brazil > Amazonas.
Anthropology
Anthropologie.
Ethnologie.
Ethnologie > Brésil > Amazonas.
anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Indigenes Volk
Kosmologie
Antropologi.
Brazil > Amazonas.
Amazonastiefland
Essay
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Essäer.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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