The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds PDF
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THE RELATIVE NATIVE Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds EDUARDO VIVEIROS DE CASTRO Afterword by Roy Wagner H au B O O K S Executive Editor Giovanni da Col Managing Editor Sean M. Dowdy Editorial Board .Anne-Christine Taylor Carlos Fausto Danilyn Rutherford Ilana Gershon Jason ’^uoop Joel Robbins Jonathan Parry Michael Lempert Stephan Palmie ^^w.haubooks.com THE RELATIVE NATIVE E S S A Y S O N IN D IG E N O U S C O N C E P T U A L W O R L D S E d u ard o V iveiros de C astro Hau Books Chicago © 2015 HAu Books and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Chapter TTwo is a reprint of Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. “(Anthropology) ^ND (science),” an after-dinner speech at “Anthropology and Science,” the 5th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Great Britain and Commonwealth, 14 July 2003. Published in Manchester Papers in Social An^ropology, 7, 2003. © 2003 University of Manchester Dep^artment of Social An^ropology. Al rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder. Chapter Three is a reprint of Viveiros de Castro, Ethiardo. 2004. “Perspectival anthropology and the method of controUed equivocation." Tipitt Journal of the Societyfar the Anthropology of Lowland South America 2 (1): 3-22. © 2003 Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. Al rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder. Chapter Four is a reprint of Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2011. “Zeno and the art of anthropology: Of lies, beliefs, paradoxes, and other truths.” Common Knowledge 17 (1): 128-45. © 2011 Duke University Press. Al rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder, Duke University Press. ^^w.dukeupress.edu Chapter Five is a new translation ofViveiros de Castro, Eduardo.2002. “Arnalizagao e contra-efernafSo do ^virtual: 0 processo do parentesco.” In A inconstancia da alma selvagem (eoutrosmsaiosde antropologia),401-56. Sio Paulo: Cosac &Naify. © 2002 Cosac & N^fy. Al rights reserved. Published and translated by permission of the copyright holder, Editora Cosac &Naify. http://editora.cosacn^fy.com.br Chapter Six is a reprint of Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2009. “The gift and the given: Three nano-essays on kinship and magic.” In Kinship and beyond: The genealogical model reconsidered, edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach, 237-68. Oxford: Berghahn. © 2009 Berghahn Books. Al rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder, Berghahn Books. •^ww/. berghahnbooks.com Cover and layout design: Sheehan Moore Typese^mg: Prepress Plus (^wwr. prepressplus.in) ISBN: 978-0-9905050-3-7 LCCN: 2014953508 Hau Books Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S. Langley Chicago, IL 60628 haubooks.com HAu Books is and distributed byThe U^wrsiity of Chicago P ^. wwwpress.uchicago.edu Printed in the United States of .America on acid-free paper. Contents PART I: METHODS CHAPTER ONE The Relative Native 3 CHAPTER TWO And 39 CHAPTER THREE Perspectival Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Equivocation 55 CHAPTER FOUR Zeno and the Art of Anthropology: Of Lies, Beliefs, Pardoxes, and Other Truths 75 PART II: VIRTUAL KlNSHIP CHAPTER FIVE Along the Spider 'Thread: Virtuality Actualization, and the Kinship process in Amazonia 97 CHAPTER SIX The Gift and the Given: ^hi-ee Nano-Essays on Kinship and Magic 139 THE RELATIVE NATIVE CHAPTER SEVEN Immanence and Fear: Stranger-Events and Subj ects in Amazonia 169 PART III: COSMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVISM IN AMAZONIA AND ELSEWHERE PREFACE TO THE LECTURES 191 CHAPTER EIGHT Cosmologies: Perspectivism 195 CHAPTER NINE Culture: The Universal Animal 229 CHAPTER TEN Nature: The World as Affect and Perspective 249 CHAPTER ELEVEN Supernature: Under the Gaze of the Other 273 afterword Facts force you to believe in them; perspectives encourage you to b e lieve out of them By Roy Wagner 295 Bibliography 325 Index 349 PART I M eth o d s CHAPTER ONE T h e R elative N ative TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY JULIA SAUMA AND CURTIN HoLB^^D 1 eh human being, such as we imagine him, does not exist,. —Nelson Rodrigues GROUND RULES The “anthropologist" is a person whose discourse concerns the discourse of a "native.”1 The native need not be overly savage, traditionalist nor, indeed, na tive to the place where the anthropologist finds him. The anthropologist, on his part, need not be excessively civilized, modernist, or even foreign to the people his discourse concerns.2 The discourses in question (and particularly that of the native) are not necessarily texts, but rather may include al types of meaning 1. The original article was prefaced by the author with the foliowing preamble: “The pages that foUow have been adapted from the introductory remarks of a book, c^rendy in preparation, in which I develop ethnographic analyses that have been sketched out in earlier work. The main one is an article published in Mana, ‘Cosmological deoos and .Amerindian perspectivism’ (Viveiros de Castro 1996 [this appeared in Engli sh in /^RAJ in 1998]), whose metatheoretical premises, as it were, are rendered ^plicit in the present work. While the text presented here requires no previous f^amiliarity with that earlier work, the reader may bear in mind that such notions as ‘perspective' and ‘point of view,’ as weli as the idea of‘indigenous thought,’ are elaborated there also.”—Trans. 2. The use of the masculine is arbitrary.
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