Main entry:

Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de, author.

Title & Author:

Cannibal metaphysics : for a post-structural anthropology / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated and edited by Peter Skafish.

Edition:

First University of Minnesota Press edition.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Description:

229 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
A Univocal Book.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229).
Introduction / by Peter Skafish -- Part 1: Anti-Narcissus. A remarkable reversal ; Perspectivism ; Multinaturalism ; Images of savage thought -- Part 2: Capitalism and schizophrenia from an anthropological point of view. A curious chiasm ; An anti-sociology of multiplicities ; Everything is production : intensive filiation -- Part 3: Demonic alliance. The metaphysics of predation ; Transversal shamanism ; Production is not everything: becomings ; The system's intensive conditions -- Part 4: The canibal cogita. The enemy in the concept ; Becomings of structuralism.

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.; Provided by Publisher.

ISBN:

9781517905316 (paperback)
1517905311 (paperback)

Subject:

Philosophical anthropology.
Structural anthropology.
Poststructuralism.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Anthropologie structurale.
Poststructuralisme.
philosophical anthropology.
structural anthropology.
post-structuralism.
Anthropology Philosophy

Added entries:

Skafish, Peter, editor, translator.
Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de. Métaphysiques cannibales.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301255
Call No.: BIB 247419
Status: Available