Eduardo Viveiros de Castro


Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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, Amazônia: etnologia e história indígena, and A inconstância da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Viveiros de Castro taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the University of Chicago, and at the University of Cambridge. His principal contribution is the development of the idea of Amerindian perspectivism.

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