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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Anthropology and alterity. New York : Routledge, 2017 (OCoLC)932175139 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernhard Leistle |
ISBN: | 1317205901 1138671843 131720588X 9781317205883 1317205898 9781317205890 9781138671843 9781317205906 9781315616759 1315616750 |
OCLC Number: | 966380743 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Terminology and Translation; Anthropology and Alterity-Responding to the Other: Introduction; 1 The Emergence of the Radical Other in Phenomenology; 2 Paradoxes of Representing the Alien in Ethnography; 3 The Friendly Other; 4 "Haunted by the Aboriginal": Theory and Its Other; 5 The Other Otter: Relational Being at the Edge of Empire; 6 Otherness and Stigmatized Whiteness: Skin Whitening, Vitiligo and Albinism; 7 The Alien and the Self 8 Intimate and Inaccessible: The Role of Asymmetry in Charismatic Christian Perceptions of God, Self and Fellow Believers9 Pain and Otherness, the Otherness of Pain; 10 Otherness and the Underground: Buried Treasure in the Sierra Tarahumara; 11 The Limits of Understanding: Empirical and Radical Otherness in the Andes; 12 "The Order of the World": A Responsive Phenomenology of Schreber's Memoirs; 13 Photography Tears the Subject From Itself; List of Contributors; Index |
Series Title: | Routledge studies in anthropology, 32. |
Responsibility: | edited by Bernhard Leistle. |
Abstract:
This book bridges the gap between recent philosophical discourses on the Other and the necessities of empirical research in cultural anthropology. It introduces the concept of a responsivity to the Other, developed by Bernhard Waldenfels, illustrating its fertility through contributions by eminent scholars from anthropology, psychiatry and literary studies.
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