Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has published numerous books and articles at the forefront of Brazilian anthropology and Americanist ethnology, among them: From the Enemy’s Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society (1992); “Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,” (1998); “Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies in Common Knowledge,” (2004); “Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation in Tipití,” (2004); The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil (2011); Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere (2012); Radical Dualism (2012); and Cannibal Metaphysics (2014). Born in Rio de Janeiro, Viveiros de Castro taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the University of Chicago, and at the University of Cambridge. His principal contribution is the development of the idea of Amerindian perspectivism.
Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 6pm
Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz
