Cannibal metaphysics / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; edited and translated by Peter Skafish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, author.

Contributor:

Skafish, Peter, editor, translator.

Series:

Univocal

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Structural anthropology.

Poststructuralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Univocal, 2014.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: Anti-Narcissus; 1. A Remarkable Reversal; 2. Perspectivism; 3. Multinaturalism; 4. Images of Savage Thought; PART TWO: Capitalism and Schizophrenia from an Anthropological Point of View; 5. A Curious Chiasm; 6. An Anti-Sociology of Multiplicities; 7. Everything is Production: Intensive Filiation; PART THREE: Demonic Alliance; 8. The Metaphysics of Predation; 9. Transversal Shamanism; 10. Production Is Not Everything: Becomings; 11. The System's Intensive Conditions; PART FOUR: The Cannibal Cogito

12. The Enemy in the Concept13. Becomings of Structuralism; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-937561-97-6

OCLC:

967529655