Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's Cannibal Metaphysics Reinvigorates Anthropological Thought

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's book "Métaphysiques cannibales" is the first volume in a new PUF collection titled "Métaphysiques" that aims to revive metaphysical inquiry by shedding its dogmatic heritage and engaging with contemporary conditions of thought. The collection emphasizes the plurality of metaphysical thinking. Viveiros de Castro's work challenges the entrenched prejudice that anthropology is an anti-metaphysical discipline. He argues that contemporary anthropology can benefit from revitalizing metaphysical questioning, and proposes a perspectival shift: the most interesting concepts and problems in anthropological theories originate from the imaginative powers of the societies they study. The book was reviewed by Jérôme Lebrun in artpress in May 2010.