Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Biography:

Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has published many books and articles which are considered important in Brazilian anthropology and in Americanist ethnology among them: From the enemy's point of view: humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society Amazônia: etnologia e história indígena and A inconstância da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia.