AS VIRTUDES DA FLORESTA
OUTRAS NOTAS SOBRE ANTROPOLOGIA E “ANTROPOLOGIA”
Abstract
this paper is concerned with two simple objectives. One of them consists of recovering some arguments about the ethnographic theory of Amerindian perspectivism, as presented in the Amazonian ethnography, and bringing them closer to the discussion promoted by this author with some events extracted from the Ayoreo ethnography (a Chaquean people who speak a language of the Zamuco family) , particularly the story of a man from these people who expressed, at times, the desire to become an “anthropology-maker”, which I have been poring over for some time. The other one is to present, from the articulation between the Ayoreo material and some guidelines of this more general discussion, a thought experiment elaborated from the contrast between a certain Ayoreo “anthropology” with a conventional idea about what anthropology is.