Anthropology and alterity

Bernhard Leistle

Routledge - London

2017

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.

Ritual and identity

Klaus-Peter Köpping, Bernhard Leistle, Michael Rudolph (eds)

LIT Verlag - Berlin

2006