VIVEIROS DE CASTRO, EDUARDO

Brazilian anthropologist at the Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and director of the Núcleo de Transformações Indígenas research group. Viveiros de Castro has held important posts in Cambridge, England, and Paris and has written extensively aboutAmazonianindigenous peoples, especially theAraweté. His publications includeFrom the Enemy’s Point ofView:Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society(1992) and “Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism” (1998). Viveiros de Castro’s discussion onperspectivismis among the most important recent writings on shamanism and has also influenced cultural critics and theorists such as Bruno Latour.