From the enemy's point of view
Subtitle: humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society
By: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Catherine V. Howard.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Araweté Indians; Tupi Indians -- Religion; Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Religion; Cannibalism -- Brazil
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index.
Translation of: Araweté.