From the Enemys Point of View de Castro Eduardo Viveiros
From the Enemys Point of View de Castro Eduardo Viveiros The Arawet are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European…
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From the Enemys Point of View de Castro Eduardo Viveiros
The Arawet are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Arawet-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. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Arawet social cosmology and ritual order.
He situates the Arawet in contemporary anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands
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