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)

Books

• Arawete: Os deuses canibais, Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar/ANPOCS, 1986. (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.

• Arawete: O povo do Ipixuna, São Paulo: CEDI, 1992. (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, 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. [1]

• 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. (French) Review: Unemployed Negativity (2013 EN).
  • 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.
  • Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology, ed. & trans. Peter Skafish, Univocal Publishing, 2014, 229 pp. [2] Review: Mentore (Anthropology News 2015).

• 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.

• Radical Dualism: A Meta-Fantasy on the Square Root of Dual Organizations, or a Savage Homage to Lévi-Strauss, Hatje Cantz, 2012, 44 pp. [3] (English)/(German)

• with Déborah Danowski, Há mundo por vir? Ensaio sobre os medos e os fins, Cultura e Barbárie, 2014, 176 pp. [4] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • The Ends of the World, Polity Press, 2016, 180 pp. [5] [6]

• The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds, afterw. Roy Wagner, Manchester: HAU, 2016, 366 pp. Collected essays. [7]

Papers, Articles, Lectures

• "Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4:3 (Sep 1998), pp 469-488.
• "After-dinner speech at 'Anthropology and Science'", Manchester Papers in Social Anthropology 7 (2003). 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).

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

• Viveiros de Castro at ARG
• Viveiros de Castro at Wikipedia