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Eduardo viveiros de castro who is afraid of the ontological wolf
Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro (born 1951) is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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He has published many books and articles which are considered important in Brazilian anthropology and in Americanist ethnology, among them: From the enemy's point of view: humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society, Amazonia: etnologia e historia indigena ("The Amazon: Ethnology and Indigenous History" - coeditor with Manuela Carneiro da Cunha), and A inconstancia da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia ("The Inconstancy of the Wild Soul and other essays on Anthropology").

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Viveiros de Castro taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Chicago, and at Cambridge University. His principal contribution is the development of the idea of Amerindian perspectivism.

Eduardo viveiros de castro through the looking glass of language
Publications in English


