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Date: 06/16/2009 Speaker: Prof. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Institution: Department of Anthropology - National Museum - Rio de Janeiro Summary: Presentation of some striking characteristics of the socio-cosmological thought of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. The first and main one is precisely the conception of the cosmos as a society of societies, or a collective of collectives. The second consists of the universality of the human condition as the ontological substrate of the cosmos. The third concerns the different modes of possible interaction between anthropo-cosmological collectives.