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

Name: From the Enemy's Point of View Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society
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ISBN: 9780226858029

ISBN-10: 0226858022

ISBN-13: 9780226858029

Edition: 1992

Authors: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Catherine V. Howard

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The Araweteacute; 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 Araweteacute; social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweteacute;--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…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Translator's Note


Preface Note on Orthography



Cosmology and Society



The Cannibal Gods



Living with the Araweteacute



The Tupi-Guarani Landscape



Approaching the Araweteacute



The Country



The Regional Context



The People



History



The Forsaken Ones



The Separation



Who's Who in the Cosmos



Gods and Spirits



Tupi-Guarani Cosmologies



The Frame of Life



The Year



The Village



A Day in the Dry Season



Difficulty at the Beginning



Nurture and Supernature



Mild Beer



Strong Beer



Meat and Honey



The Alimentary Forms of the Religious Life



Familiar Terms



The Mixture



Names



Relatives



Eluding Affinity



Birth, Copulation, and Death



The Facts of Life



Passions



Death



Only the Bones Forget



Alien Words



The Marriage of Heaven and Earth



Shamanism and the Music of the Gods



Killers and the Music of Enemies



The Enemy's Point of View



Beings of Becoming



The Cannibal Cogito



Spiritual Dualism and the Cosmological Triads



My Brother-in-law the Jaguar



The Anti-Narcissus



Vengeance and Sacrifice



A Rare Bird



On Dialogical Anthropology



The Anti-Social Contract



Eaters of Raw Flesh



Araweteacute; Villages in 1981-83



List of Historical Araweteacute; Villages



Araweteacute; Population



Genealogies



Botanical and Zoological Terms (English, Portuguese, Araweteacute;, Latin)



Glossary of Araweteacute


Terms


Notes


Works Cited


Index