Brazilian anthropologist, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro has been a vital force in anthropology for the past fifteen years. Here, in "The Turn of the Native", he and his students probe issues pertinent to the future of the discipline in a series of concise and sharp essays. They ask such questions as: is identity a useful concept, or is it more like a contagious disease? Should we replace the traditional tactics of "othering" with something new? And is the objectification of culture simply cannibalism by another name? This hard-hitting pamphlet captures the fascinating debates emerging in the Brazilian school of "ethno-anthropology".
- ISBN10 0976147548
- ISBN13 9780976147541
- Publish Date 22 September 2006
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
- Format Paperback
- Pages 100
- Language English