ANTHRO 189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Relation, Perspectivism, Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
23 May 2017
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A true self of the purest element of being appearance. Spirit image animal ----- different for whoever is seeing it. *becoming other: the meanings can vary more cultural background is needed. *everything surrounding us in the forest is alive with a spirit. I. e. animal (moon, wind, etc. ) are representations of ancestors that metamorphosed into these beings. The relative native by eduardo viveiros de castro. The article proposes a change of perspective, where the anthropologist no longer has the power over discourse, and the native engages in it from an anthropological perspective. [the native has the raw resources for the anthropologist"s research] There is no equality in their positions . The anthropologist"s discourse concern"s the native"s: 2 incompatible ways of conceiving anthropology: The prospect of the problems themselves problem. Different solutions (culture: bifurcation of the nature: Native: secondary ideology being radically diverse. This is what anthropologists hope to exploit, but the difference that makes a difference is:
