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Author:

Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de.

Title:

From the enemy's point of view : humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Catherine V. Howard.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

xx, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Araweté Indians.
Tupi Indians--Religion.
Indians of South America--Brazil--Religion.
Cannibalism--Brazil.
Shamanism
Brazil
Araweté (Indiens)
Tupi (Indiens)--Religion.
Indiens d'Amérique--Brésil--Religion.
Cannibalisme--Brésil.
Araweté.
Godsdienst.
Mythologie.

Other Titles:

Araweté. English

Notes:

Translation of: Araweté. Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index.

Summary:

"Translated and revised version of author's 1986 doctoral thesis, one of the most influential monographs in Brazilian ethnology of the last decade. Describes and interprets cosmology and social philosophy of the Araweté, a Tupi-Guarani people of eastern Amazonia, from the perspective of concepts of the person, death and eschatology, divinity, and systems of shamanism and warfare. The theme of divine cannibalism is treated as part of the complex of Tupi-Guarani ritual anthropophagy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

ISBN:

9780226858029 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226858022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226858012 (alk. paper)
0226858014 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

91031969

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)