Verwandte Artikel zu From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity...
Inhaltsangabe
The Araweté are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweté--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. He situates the Araweté in contemporary anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for its extraordinary openness to exteriority and transformation. For the Araweté the person is always in transition, an outlook expressed in the mythology of their gods, whose cannibalistic ways they imitate. From the Enemy's Point of View argues that current concepts of society as a discrete, bounded entity which maintains a difference between "interior" and "exterior" are wholly inappropriate in this and in many other Amazonian societies.
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro teaches anthropology at the Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro. Flávio Gordon and Francisco Araújo are PhD students at the Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro.
Catherine V. Howard is an anthropology translator from French, Portuguese, and Spanish into English. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Waiwai in the Amazon and earned her PhD from the University of Chicago.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
EUR 124,36
EUR 4,55 für den Versand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach Deutschland
Versandziele, Kosten & Dauer
Suchergebnisse für From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity...
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society
Verlag:
University of Chicago Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0226858014
ISBN 13: 9780226858012
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Anbieter: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. May contain underlining and/or highlighting. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Z1-W-024-01713
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society
Verlag:
University of Chicago Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0226858014
ISBN 13: 9780226858012
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Anbieter: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
hardcover. Zustand: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M0226858014Z3
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar