Anthropology and Alterity: Responding to the Other

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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 Believers
9 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