Cannibal Metaphysics
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Cannibal Metaphysics

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Cannibal Metaphysics

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Acknowledgment
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Dedication
  7. Part One- Anit-Narcissus
  8. Chapter One- A Remarkable Reversal
  9. Chapter Two- Perspectivism
  10. Chapter Three- Multinaturalism
  11. Chapter Four- Images of Savage Thought
  12. Part Two- Capitalism and Schizophrenia from an Anthropological Point of View
  13. Chapter Five- A Curious Chiasm
  14. Chapter Six- An Anti-Sociology of Multiplicities
  15. Chapter Seven- Everything is Production- Intensive Filiation
  16. Part Three- Demonic Alliance
  17. Chapter Eight- The Metaphysics of Predation
  18. Chapter Nine- Transversal Shamanism
  19. Chapter Ten- Production Is Not Everything- Becomings
  20. Chapter Eleven- The System's Intensive Conditions
  21. Part Four- The Cannibal Cogito
  22. Chapter Twelve- The Enemy in the Concept
  23. Chapter Thirteen- Becomings of Structuralism
  24. Bibliography

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