Perspectivism and Indigenous Worldview: one Culture, many Natures

As part of the lecture series Society & Culture – Sociology
in cooperation with the Austrian Latin America Institute (LAI)

The term ‘Amerindian perspectivism’ comes from the work of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, who studied and translated the worldview of the Yawalapíti and Araweté. According to indigenous ideas, there is a categorisation of humans, animals, plants and other beings that are part of a symmetrical network of relationships. Instead of viewing the world from a purely human perspective, the perspectives of all (living) beings are considered on the same level.

Moderator: Claudia Augustat, PhD in cultural anthropology, has been head of the South America Collection at the Weltmuseum Wien since 2004. Augustat researches material culture and cultural memory, museums and colonialism as well as the decolonisation of museum practice.

University lecturer Dr Marina Corrêa (Institute of Romance Studies, University of Vienna), studied German and Romance Studies with publications on interdisciplinarity, hermeneutics and (cultural) translation. Two-week stay in the Amazon region on the banks of the Aracá River with ‘Ribeirinhos’.

As part of the Science Talks in cooperation with the Austrian Latin America Institute (LAI), topics relating to the situation of indigenous groups in Brazil will be addressed and explored in greater depth.
Further information on the exhibition (Un)Known Artists of the Amazon

Duration: 90 minutes / 1.5 units
Participation: free
Booking: kulturvermittlung@weltmuseumwien.at
Further information: https://www.vhs.at/de/k/566697446 (course no. VA240021)
Meeting point: Weltmuseum Wien zam