Eduardo Viveiros de Castro quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Why is a shaman's journey considered a dangerous act?

   Answer: Losing human perspective

   Why: Viveiros de Castro: whoever answers a spirit's call passes to its side and becomes it; only shamans make that crossing and return still human.

2. 2 Medium

   Which provocative "metaphysics" titled Viveiros de Castro's most famous 2009 book?

   Answer: Cannibal Metaphysics

   Why: The French original of 2009 uses the plural, Métaphysiques, and the English translation did not follow until 2014.

3. 3 Hard

   Why is intensive difference prioritized over extensive difference in perspectivism?

   Answer: It defines relations

   Why: The vocabulary is Deleuze's, and the point is that the difference sits inside each being rather than between one kind and another.

4. 4 Easy

   How does an Amazonian shaman cross boundaries between species?

   Answer: Changing their perspective

   Why: Viveiros de Castro: only shamans cross and come back, into a world where what we see as blood is beer to the jaguar.

5. 5 Medium

   What term does Viveiros de Castro use for non-human personhood?

   Answer: subjectivity

   Why: In his 1998 article the subjectivities filling the world span animals, the dead, spirits, plants and occasionally even artefacts.

6. 6 Hard

   What causes the problem of equivocation during anthropological fieldwork?

   Answer: Homonymous conceptual terms

   Why: Viveiros de Castro's example is the vulture, which sees the maggots in rotting meat as grilled fish: one word, two worlds.