From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society

摘要: The Arawete are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in face destructive forces European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains phenomenon terms social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis religious life --a Tupi-Guarani people Eastern Amazonia--focuses on concepts personhood, death, divinity.Building upon ethnographic description interpretation, addresses central aspect Arawete's concept divinity--consumption--showing how its cannibalistic expression differs radically from traditional representations other societies. He situates contemporary anthropology as a whose vision world is complex, tragic, dynamic, society commands our attention for extraordinary openness to exteriority transformation. For person always transition, an outlook expressed mythology gods, ways they imitate. "From Enemy's Point View" argues that current discrete, bounded entity which maintains difference between "interior" "exterior" wholly inappropriate many