Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (1951) is a Brazilian anthropologist and ethnologist and Professor of social anthropology at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He was Simón Bolívar Chair of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University (1997-98) and Directeur de recherches at the C.N.R.S. (2000-2001).

Works

Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere [1998], 2012, Log.

(in English unless noted otherwise)

Books

• Arawete: os deuses canibais, Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar/ANPOCS, 1986. PhD thesis. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society, trans. Catherine V. Howard, University of Chicago Press, 1992, xx+407 pp. Publisher. (English)

• Arawete: o povo do Ipixuna, São Paulo: CEDI, 1992; 3rd ed., rev. & exp., as Araweté, um povo tupi da Amazônia, São Paulo: Sesc, 2021, 225 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• editor, with M. Carneiro da Cunha, Amazônia: etnologia e história indígena, São Paulo: USP/FAPESP, 1993. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• editor, Antropologia do parentesco: estudos ameríndios, Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, 1995. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• A inconstância da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2002, 549 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil, trans. Gregory Duff Morton, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2011, 108 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Die Unbeständigkeit der wilden Seele, trans. Oliver Precht, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017, 457 pp. Publisher. (German)
  • L'inconstance de l'âme sauvage. Catholiques et cannibales dans le Brésil du xvie siècle, pref. Daniel Barbu and Philippe Borgeaud, trans. Aurore Becquelin and Véronique Boyer, Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2020, 173 pp. Review: Zéron (ASSR). (French)

• editor, A onça e a diferença: Projeto AmaZone, 2005. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• with Stéphane Breton, Michèle Coquet, Michael Houseman, Jean-Marie Schaeffer and Anne-Christine Taylor, Qu'est-ce qu'un corps?, Paris: Flammarion, and Musée du Quai Branly, 2006. (French)

• Métaphysiques cannibales: lignes d'anthropologie post-structurale, trans. Oiara Bonilla, Paris: PUF, 2009. Review: Unemployed Negativity (2013 EN). (French)
  • Metafísicas caníbales: líneas de antropología postestructural, Buenos Aires: Katz, 2010. (Spanish)
  • "Cannibal Metaphysics: Amerindian Perspectivism", intro. & trans. Peter Skafish, Radical Philosophy 182 (Nov/Dec 2013), pp 15-28. Trans. of first two chapters. (English)
  • Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology, ed. & trans. Peter Skafish, Univocal Publishing, 2014, 229 pp, ARG. [1] Review: Mentore (Anthropology News 2015). (English)
  • Metafísicas canibais: elementos para uma antropologia pós-estrutural, Cosac Naify, 2015. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Metafisiche cannibali: elementi di antropologia post-strutturale, Verona: Ombre corte, 2017. (Italian)
  • '식인의 형이상학' 프랑스어-한국어 번역어 목록, trans. Sukyung Park with Daeseung Park, Humanitas, 2018. (Korean)
  • Kannibalische Metaphysiken. Elemente einer post-strukturalen Anthropologie, trans. Theresa Mentrup, Berlin: Merve, 2019, 304 pp. Publisher. (German)

• Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere, intro. Roy Wagner, Manchester: HAU, 2012, 168 pp. Four Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, February-March 1998. (English)

• Radical Dualism: A Meta-Fantasy on the Square Root of Dual Organizations, or a Savage Homage to Lévi-Strauss, Hatje Cantz, 2012, 44 pp. Publisher. (English)/(German)

• with Déborah Danowski, Há mundo por vir? Ensaio sobre os medos e os fins, Cultura e Barbárie, 2014, 176 pp. [2] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • The Ends of the World, Polity Press, 2016, 180 pp, ARG. [3] Publisher. (English)
  • ¿Hay mundo por venir? Ensayo sobre Los miedos y los fines, Caja Negra, 2019. (Spanish)
  • In welcher Welt leben? Ein Versuch über die Angst vor dem Ende, trans. Ulrich van Loyen and Clemens van Loyen, Berlin: Matthes et Seitz, 2019, 192 pp. Publisher. (German)

• The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds, afterw. Roy Wagner, Chicago: HAU, 2015, vi+355 pp, PDF. Collected essays. Publisher. (English)

• Politique des multiplicités. Pierre Clastres face à l’État, trans. & afterw. Julien Pallotta, Bellevaux: Éditions Dehors, 2019, 160 p. (French)

Papers, articles, lectures

• "Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4:3, Sep 1998, pp 469-488. [4]
  • "Kosmologiczna deixis oraz perspektywizm indiański", trans. Mariusz Filip and Katarzyna Chlewińska, Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia 3, 2017, pp 235–258. (Polish)

• "After-Dinner Speech at 'Anthropology and Science'", Manchester Papers in Social Anthropology 7, 2003, HTML. Given at the 5th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Great Britain and Commonwealth, 14 July 2003.

• "Some Reflections on the Notion of Species in History and Anthropology", trans. Frederico Santos Soares de Freitas and Zeb Tortorici, e-misférica 10:1, Winter 2013.

• "The Equal and the Different", ARTMargins 7:3, Oct 2018, pp 109-112. With an introduction by Irene V. Small.

• with Déborah Danowski, "The Past Is Yet to Come", e-flux 114, Dec 2020.
  • "Preteklost šele pride", trans. Katarina Majerhold, Časopis za kritiko znanosti 284, 2021, pp 73-86. (Slovenian)

Interviews

• Encontros, ed. Renato Sztutman, Rio de Janeiro: Azougue, 2008, 261 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • La mirada del jaguar: introduccion al perspectivismo amerindio. Entrevistas, Tinta Limón, 2013. (Spanish)
  • Le regard du jaguar: introduction au perspectivisme amérindien, Bordeaux: Éditions la Tempête, 2021, 305 pp. Collection of interviews. Publisher. (French)
  • Lo sguardo del giaguaro: introduzione al prospettivismo amerindio, Milan: Meltemi, 2023, 229 pp. Publisher. (Italian)

• "For a Strategic Primitivism: A Dialogue between Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Yuk Hui", Philosophy Today 65:2, Apr 2021, pp 391-400. [5] (English)

Literature

• Bruno Latour, "Perspectivism: 'Type' or 'Bomb'?", Anthropology Today 25:2 (Apr 2009), pp 1-2.

• Stephen Grant Baines, "Social anthropology with indigenous peoples in Brazil, Canada and Australia: a comparative approach", Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 9:1 (2012).

• Marina Vanzolini, Pedro Cesarino, "Perspectivism", Oxford Bibliographies, 2014.

• McKenzie Wark, "Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: In and Against the Human", Verso Blog, 12 Jun 2017.

See also

• Marilyn Strathern
• Philippe Descola

Links

• ARG
• Wikipedia