Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and elsewhere, Four Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, February–March 1998

A tour-de-force in the anthropology of ours and other cosmologies. The first official version of the lessons which sparked one of the most influential anthropological movements of the twenty-first century. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (b.1951) is Professor of social anthropology at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He has been Simón Bolívar Chair of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University (1997-98) and Directeur de recherches at the C.N.R.S. (2000-2001). His publications include From the enemy’s point of view (Chicago 1992), A inconstância da alma selvagem (São Paulo 2002), Métaphysiques cannibales (Paris 2009) and The inconstancy of the Indian soul (Chicago 2012).