This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and
lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of
venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together
here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his
momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, "Cosmological
Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere."
Rounded out with new English translations of a number of previously
unpublished works, the resulting book is a wide-ranging portrait of one
of the towering figures of contemporary thought--philosopher,
anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, and more. With a new
afterword by Roy Wagner elucidating Viveiros de Castro's work,
influence, and legacy, The Relative Native will be required reading,
further cementing Viveiros de Castro's position at the center of
contemporary anthropological inquiry.