Eduardo Viveiros de CastroThinkers

Anthropology is a kind of thought-experimental fiction consisting in taking indigenous ideas as concepts, and following the consequences of such a decision to determine unique preconceptual grounds, unique personae, and unique material realities.

The Other is infinite. There are vastly more ways to be other, and vastly more others than the most tolerant soul alive can conceive.

Perspectival multinaturalism is a way of understanding relations that allows people to account for the distinctive qualities that characterize different kinds of beings and to establish communication with them despite these differences.

Perspectivism is the notion that though humans tend to see humans as humans, animals as animals and spirits (if they see them) as spirits... animals and spirits too see themselves as spirits and animals as well as as humans.