Anthropology and Alterity: Responding to the Other

ISBN-13: 9780367875459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Bernhard Leistle

Opis

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 liter

Spis treści

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]

O autorze

Bernhard Leistle is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Carleton University.