Through the Looking-glass of Language: Clarice Lispector meets Guimarães Rosa
Room
Speakers): Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is professor of
Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro. He has taught at Chicago, Cambridge, Manchester,
and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His
international publications include From the enemy's point
of view: Humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society (Chicago,
1992), Métaphisiques Cannibales (Paris, PUF, 2009) and The
Inconstancy of the Indian Soul (Chicago 2012). The theorie of
multinaturalism and Amerindian perspectivism is responsible for wat
is being called the "ontological turn" in
anthropology, and are presented by Roy Wagner as "the
benchmark of 21st century anthropology" ( Hau's
Masterclass Series ). For Bruno Latour, Viveiros de Castro
"Perspectivism: Type or Bomb" has "the
potential to explode the whole implicit philosophy" that
divides nature from culture. He has been awarded the prize for best
dissertation by the Brazilian National Association of Social
Sciences in 1984, the "Medaille de la
Francophonie" from the French Academy in 1998, The Érico
Vanucci Mendes prize from the CNPQ in 2004, and the Ordem Nacional
do Mérito CientÃfico in 2008. He is the coordinator of the
"Nucleo of Indigenous transformations" and
founder of the colletive ATOA. At èצӰÏñ, Viveiros de Castro will
discuss two masterworks of 20th Century literature: "The
Jaguar", by Guimarães Rosa, and "The Passion
according to G.H.", by Clarice Lispector, and their
metamorphic characters.
(PDFs available by request
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Co-sponsored by
the Center for Latin American Studies, the èצӰÏñ Humanities
Center, and the Division of Literatures, Cultures and
Languages
Organized by MarÃlia Librandi-Rocha ( mariliar [at] stanford.edu (mariliar[at]stanford[dot]edu)
); student coordinators: Fatoumata Seck ( fseck [at] stanford.edu (fseck[at]stanford[dot]edu)
) and Victoria Saramago (saramago [at] stanford.edu (saramago[at]stanford[dot]edu)
)
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