Anthropology and Alterity (eBook, ePUB)

Responding to the Other
Redaktion: Leistle, Bernhard

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317205890
• Artikelnr.: 47387276

Autorenporträt

Bernhard Leistle is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Carleton University.

Inhaltsangabe

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]