...Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Duke University Press 2004 Symposium: Talking Peace with Gods, Part 1 EXCHANGING PERSPECTIVES The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies Eduardo Viveiros de Castro At the outset of his reply...

...Eduardo Viveiros de Castro; Jeffrey M. Perl Originally published in 2004 in the Common Knowledge symposium “Talking Peace with Gods,” this article elaborates the nature and consequences of the perspectivist cosmologies of Amerindian societies. Contemporary Western cosmologies regard humans as ex...

...Debbora Battaglia These comments on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's article, “Zeno and the Art of Anthropology,” emphasize, first, his engagement with ideas of Gilles Deleuze that open to the political dimension of Amerindian perspectivism and to a “multinatural” understanding of human-to-environment...

... to relativize what different peoples—say, Western academics and Amerindian shamans—compare things “for.” Jensen concludes that what is compared and relativized in this symposium are the methods of comparison and relativization themselves. He ventures that the contributors all hope that treating these terms...

..., but they haven’t made much of a difference in the United States. Now you are becoming bet- ter known there, and some Americans are asking: why ontology in anthropology? Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: I am aware that my work — above all, my texts about Amerindian perspectivism — is frequently associated...

... Their task, as Viveiros de Castro describes it, was not to decide if Spaniards had souls—that much seemed obvious—but rather if the conquistadors had bodies. The theory under which Amerindians were operating was that all entities share by default the same fundamental organization, which is basically...

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... experimental tools. Their task, as Viveiros de Castro describes it, was not to decide if Spaniards had souls—that much seemed obvious—but rather if the conquistadors had bodies. The theory under which Amerindians were operating was that all entities share by default the same fundamental organization...

... Fukuyama’s The End of History (1989)—and the terms of debate at the legendary conference of 1550 in Valla- dolid, Spain. Comparing the questions under dispute—in 1550, the extent to which Amerindians differed from Europeans was at issue—should help clarify what we...

... Anthropological Institute Perspectivism,” Amerindian and 18 2004 Routledge, U.K.: (Abingdon...

..., the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro chose a sentence by Gilles Deleuze as the epigraph for an article, published in the Brazilian journal Mana , on Amerindian perspectivism . (A modified version of the article appeared in English two years later, in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute...

... of attention do images stimulate? Each case study selected by the author is, moreover, fascinating in itself: an Amerindian mask, an Aboriginal painting on a piece of bark, a sixteenth-century Mongolian drawing of an elephant. The answers offered for the questions asked are unfortunately always already...

..., Relative Native, 8 9. B o ya ri n X en o p h il ia : P ar t 7 3 7 9published here a study, subtitled The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies, about cultures of the Amazon in which animals . . . are people and jaguars experience blood as manioc beer.17 As Viveiros de...

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