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The relative native : essays on indigenous conceptual worlds / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; [afterword by Roy Wagner].

Title
The relative native : essays on indigenous conceptual worlds / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; [afterword by Roy Wagner].
Author
Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de
Publication
  • Chicago, IL : Hau Books, [2015]
  • [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
Wagner, Roy, 1938-2018
Description
vi, 355 pages; 23 cm
Summary
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 University Lectures, "Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere." Rounded out with new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works, the resulting book is a wide-ranging portrait of one of the towering figures of contemporary thought -- philosopher, anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, and more. With a new afterword by Roy Wagner elucidating Viveiros de Castro's work, influence, and legacy, The Relative Native will be required reading, further cementing Viveiros de Castro's position at the center of contemporary anthropological inquiry.
Series Statement
Special collections in ethnographic theory
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Alternative Title
Essays.
Subject
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnology
  • Ethnology > Brazil > Amazonas
  • Anthropologie
  • Ethnologie
  • Ethnologie > Brésil > Amazonas
  • anthropology
  • Indigenes Volk
  • Kosmologie
  • Antropologi
  • Brazil > Amazonas
  • Amazonastiefland
Genre/Form
  • Essay
  • essays.
  • Essays
  • Essays.
  • Essais.
  • Essäer.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780990505037
  • 0990505030
LCCN
  • 2014953508
  • 40025770541
  • 40025776611
OCLC
  • 891618293
  • SCSB-11272616
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library