Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-structural Anthropology - Couverture souple

Viveiros De Castro, Eduardo

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ISBN 10 : 1517905311 ISBN 13 : 9781517905316

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2026

Synopsis

The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its "ontological turn," offers a vision of anthropology as "the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought." After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours--in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own--he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such "other" metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences. Along the way, he spells out the consequences of this anthropology for thinking in general via a major reassessment of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguments for the continued relevance of Deleuze and Guattari, dialogues with the work of Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, and Marilyn Strathern, and inventive treatments of problems of ontology, translation, and transformation. Bold, unexpected, and profound, Cannibal Metaphysics is one of the chief works marking anthropology's current return to the theoretical center stage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Peter Skafish is Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Anthropology Department at McGill University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517905311
• ISBN 13: 9781517905316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 229
• Éditeur: Skafish Peter
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