Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 655 g
Responding to the Other
Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 655 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
ISBN: 978-1-138-67184-3
Verlag: Routledge
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 approaches to otherness – the hermeneutical pragmatics of anthropology, and the radical reflection of philosophy – together, with the goal of enriching one through the other. The philosophy of the German phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels, up to now little known to anthropologists, has a central position in this undertaking. Waldenfels’s concept of a responsivity to the Other offers to cultural anthropology the possibility of a philosophical engagement with the Other that does not contradict the project of making sense of concrete empirical others. The book illustrates the fertility of this new approach to alterity through a broad spectrum of themes, ranging from reflections on theory formation, via discussions of race and human-animal relations, to personal meditations on experiences of alterity.
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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]
