Abstract: Abstract This entry offers a general understanding of the meanings of Other in contemporary social and cultural thought. It provides a brief genealogy of Othering in the Western world, looking at the different ways that human beings have been “Othered” and how “Othering” as a process has been transformed over different historical periods—by the Greeks and Romans, by medieval thinkers, by Renaissance and Enlightenment travelers and philosophers—to how it has taken on a pejoratively political location in contemporaneous anthropological understandings of identity. The entry concludes with a discussion of different forms of racial and colonial Otherness, including a discussion of Orientalism as a form of abiding intellectual Otherness that has sustained colonial binaries.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-12-13
Language: en
Type: other
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