Editora 34 and the Center for Amerindian Studies at USP invite you to the launch of Mythology of the Chulupi Indians, by Pierre Clastres - translated by Ian Packer and with an afterword by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés.
Chat with Antonio Guerreiro and Renato Sztutman
Antonio Guerreiro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Over the past 20 years, he has conducted research, cultural documentation and outreach projects with the Kalapalo, a Carib-speaking people of the Upper Xingu. His main research interests are politics, kinship, ritual, verbal arts and territoriality in the Amazon. He is the author of the book Ancestors and their shadows: an ethnography of the Kalapalo chiefdom and its mortuary ritual (Editora da Unicamp, 2015), winner in the Human Sciences category of the 2016 Jabuti Award.
Renato Sztutman is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. He holds a master's degree (2000) and a doctorate (2005) in Social Anthropology from the same university, specializing in indigenous ethnology. In 2015, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. He currently coordinates the Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA – USP). He was the editor-in-chief of the Revista de Antropologia (Department of Anthropology at USP) from 2013 to 2017. He was one of the founders and co-editor of the magazine Sexta-feira from 1997 to 2007. His publications include the book O profeta e o principal: a ação política ameríndia e seus direitos reservados (The Prophet and the Main: Amerindian Political Action and Its Characters) (Edusp/Fapesp, 2012) and the collection Eduardo Viveiro de Castro: entrevista (Edusp/Fapesp, 2008). His main research themes are: indigenous cosmopolitics, boundaries between anthropology and philosophy, anthropology and cinema.