The two and its many: Reflections on perspectivism in a Tupi cosmology

This article takes the wild peccary hunt as the basis for an ethnographic essay on an indigenous notion of point of view,’ applied to the field of relations between humans and animals in the cosmology of a Tupi people, the Juruna. In addition to revealing the particular complexity of these relations, the concept of point of view reveals how the notion of double is irreducible to that of soul, how ‘nature’ and ‘supernature’ are perspectival effects, and finally how the hunt is included in a multiple bilinear spatio‐temporal structure, evoking the labyrinths’ that the Juruna paint an their skin.