Through the Looking-glass of Language: Clarice Lispector meets Guimar茫es 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 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes 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), M茅taphisiques 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 脡rico
Vanucci Mendes prize from the CNPQ in 2004, and the Ordem Nacional
do M茅rito Cient铆fico in 2008. He is the coordinator of the
"Nucleo of Indigenous transformations" and
founder of the colletive ATOA. At 麻豆高清, Viveiros de Castro will
discuss two masterworks of 20th Century literature: "The
Jaguar", by Guimar茫es Rosa, and "The Passion
according to G.H.", by Clarice Lispector, and their
metamorphic characters.
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Co-sponsored by
the Center for Latin American Studies, the 麻豆高清 Humanities
Center, and the Division of Literatures, Cultures and
Languages
Organized by Mar铆lia 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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