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The Araweté are some of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity within the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. On this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon on the subject of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and spiritual life of the Araweté—a Tupi-Guarani people of Eastern Amazonia—makes a speciality of 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 latest anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for its bizarre openness to exteriority and transformation. For the Araweté the person is at all times in transition, an outlook expressed within 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 irrelevant On this and in many other Amazonian societies.
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 latest anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for its bizarre openness to exteriority and transformation. For the Araweté the person is at all times in transition, an outlook expressed within 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 irrelevant On this and in many other Amazonian societies.
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