Barbara Glowczewski, Devires Totêmicos — Cosmopolítica do Sonho / Totemic Becomings — Cosmopolitics of the dreaming, Trans. by Jamille Pinheiro with Abrahão de Oliveira Santos, n-1,2015.
This book is a collection of various texts written by French anthropologist Barbara Glowczewski, including discussions with Guattari that took place in his seminar at the beginning of the 1980s. The reader is led to the creative mode in which Warlpiri people from Central Australia anchor their totemic cartography in dreams and constitute their nomadic existential territories through body paintings or ritual dancing. The author’s fascinating analysis and narratives establish connections with Deligny’s wander lines, Viveiros de Castro’s perspectivism and Guattari’s ecosophy as well as address most urgent cosmopolitical issues
Barbara Glowczewski is a French anthropologist, research director of the National Centre for Scientific Research in France (CNRS), member of the Social Anthropology Laboratory of the College de France and professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). In Brazil, she is known for the coordination of the TransOceanik program at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and by offering courses in the Licenciaturas Indígenas program. To learn more, please visit this website.
