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This article explores the concept of perspectivism in Amazonian indigenous thought, challenging the notion of a uniform animism. Fausto argues against a simplistic understanding of animism as the attribution of souls to all things, proposing instead a more nuanced view where the ascription of agency and intentionality depends on the subject's perspective and position within a relational ontology. He uses the metaphor of "Russian dolls" to illustrate the nested layers of subjectivity and the shifting boundaries between human and non-human perspectives. The "mask" of the animist, therefore, represents the fluid and context-dependent nature of these attributions, highlighting the importance of understanding indigenous cosmologies on their own terms rather than through pre-conceived Western categories.

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