Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's 1975 text on Cacique de Ramos explores mimesis and deindividualization

In approximately 1975, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro wrote "The Equal and the Different," a work commissioned by Brazilian artist Carlos Vergara, who had recently completed a photographic series on the Cacique de Ramos carnival group in Rio de Janeiro. As an anthropology student at the Museu Nacional, Viveiros de Castro examined the group's interactions and proposed a model that challenges traditional social hierarchies and conformity. He characterized it as rooted in mimesis and ecstatic deindividualization, coining the phrase "passion of the same." This analysis, published on ARTMargins Online on November 5, 2018, is available through MIT Press via a subscription model, showcasing an early anthropological viewpoint on art and cultural performance and highlighting the synergy between art and anthropology in Brazil during the mid-1970s.