Cannibal MetaphysicsThe iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its ontological turn, offers a vision of anthropology as the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought. After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than oursin which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in