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Alberto Rangel (1871-1945) was a prolific Brazilian writer who, as secretary of lands, mines, navigation, and colonization of the Amazonas State Government, recorded his experiences in the collections Inferno verde (1908) and Sombras n'agua (1913). From 1907 to 1942, because of his adoption of anti-republican ideas, he lived in self-imposed exile in Europe during the two world wars, returning to Brazil in 1942. Jean-Christophe Goddard is a professor in philosophy at Universite Toulouse-Jean Jaur s. He has published a number of works on post-Kantian German Idealism and twentieth-century French philosophy. For the last twelve years his work has focused on decolonial and feminist critical theory, contemporary African philosophy, and Amazonian counter-anthropology. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is an internationally recognized Brazilian anthropologist whose work focuses on the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and the development of a decolonial anthropology through the concepts of ""perspectivism"" and the ""extramodern."" The author of Cannibal Metaphysics, From the Enemy's Point of View, and The Ends of the World (with Deborah Danowski), he is currently Professor of Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
""Amazonia is presented as a world that thwarts any attempt at categorisation, any decision as to what is single and what is multiple; this bamboozling and hearteningly ambitious volume is a parallel challenge to our pre-existing categories, not least the category of the book itself."" —Joe Moshenska, The Guardian
