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Anthropology and Alterity: Responding to the Other book cover

1st Edition

Anthropology and Alterity Responding to the Other

Edited By Bernhard Leistle Copyright 2017
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge
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Alterity or otherness is a central notion in cultural anthropology and philosophy, as well as in other disciplines. While anthropology, with its aim of understanding cultural difference, tends to take otherness as a fact, there have been vigorous attempts in contemporary philosophy, particularly in phenomenology, to answer the fundamental question: What is the Other? This book brings the two... Read more

Introduction: Alterity and Anthropology: Responding to the Other



[Bernhard Leistle]





1. The Emergence of the Radical Other in Phenomenology



[Bernhard Leistle]







2. Paradoxes of Representing the Alien in Ethnography





[Bernhard Waldenfels]





3. The Friendly Other



[Vincent Crapanzano]





4. "Haunted by the Aboriginal": Theory and its Other



[Victor Li]





5. The Other Otter: Relational Being at the Edge of Empire



[Danielle DiNovelli-Lang]





6. Otherness and Stigmatized Whiteness: Skin Whitening, Vitiligo, and Albinism



[Amina Mire]







7. The Alien and the Self



[Thomas Fuchs]





8. Intimate and Inaccessible: The Role of Asymmetry in Charismatic Christian Perceptions of God, Self, and Fellow Believers



[Christopher Stephan]





9. Pain and Otherness, the Otherness of Pain



[C. Jason Throop]





10. Otherness and the Underground: Buried Treasure in the Sierra Tarahumara



[Frances Slaney]





11. The Limits of Understanding: Empirical and Radical Otherness in the Andes



[Marieka Sax]





12. "The Order of the World": A Responsive Phenomenology of Schreber’s Memoirs



[Bernhard Leistle]







13. Photography Tears the Subject from Itself





[Robert Desjarlais]

Biography

Bernhard Leistle is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Carleton University.

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