Anthropology and alterity : responding to the other / / edited by Bernhard Leistle

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 pages)
• Disciplina: 302.201
• Soggetto topico: Other (Philosophy); Philosophical anthropology
• Altri autori: LeistleBernhard
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 M. 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology and alterity
• ISBN: 1-317-20589-8; 1-315-61675-0; 1-317-20590-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155126803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in anthropology.