Name: From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society (en Inglés)
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Author: Eduardo Viveiros Viveiros De Castro
ISBN: 9780226858029

portada From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Eduardo Viveiros Viveiros De Castro

Año

1992

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

407

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.30

ISBN

0226858022

ISBN13

9780226858029

N° edición

Categorías

Sudamérica
Historia de américa

From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society (en Inglés)

Eduardo Viveiros Viveiros De Castro (Autor) · University Of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

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The Araweté are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweté—a Tupi-Guarani people of Eastern Amazonia—focuses on their concepts of personhood, death, and divinity. Building upon ethnographic description and interpretation, Viveiros de Castro addresses the central aspect of the Arawete's concept of divinity—consumption—showing how its cannibalistic expression differs radically from traditional representations of other Amazonian societies. He situates the Araweté in contemporary anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for its extraordinary openness to exteriority and transformation. For the Araweté the person is always in transition, an outlook expressed in the mythology of their gods, whose cannibalistic ways they imitate. From the Enemy's Point of View argues that current concepts of society as a discrete, bounded entity which maintains a difference between "interior" and "exterior" are wholly inappropriate in this and in many other Amazonian societies.