Table of Contents

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]

About the Author

Bernhard Leistle is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Carleton University.