The History of Psychology in Brazil Reference library
Regina Helena de Freitas Campos
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology
...the world. This vision, generically denominated “perspectivism” in anthropology ( Viveiros de Castro, 2002 ), sees the world as inhabited by different species of subjects (human and nonhuman), which apprehend it from different points of view. In this mosaic of perspectives, both humans and animals can look upon one another as people, endowed with spirit and sometimes with intentionality. The universe would then be peopled with human and nonhuman intentionalities endowed with their own perspectives. This cosmology seems to express a certain fragility of the...