Cannibal Metaphysics

6 best books like Cannibal Metaphysics (Eduardo Viveiros de Castro): Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human, Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum

Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	0060776099

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently...

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Author	Elif Shafak
ISBN	0241293863

An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were...

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Author	Michel Foucault
ISBN	0679752552

This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Author	Gilles Deleuze
ISBN	0816612250

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

Author	Eduardo Kohn
ISBN	0520276116

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of...

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum

Author	Fatma Aydemir
ISBN	3961010366

Was bedeutet es, sich bei jeder Krise im Namen des gesamten Heimatlandes oder der Religionszugehörigkeit der Eltern rechtfertigen zu müssen? Wie viel Vertrauen besteht nach dem NSU-Skandal noch in die Sicherheitsbehörden? Und wie wirkt sich Rassismus auf die Sexualität aus?

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