Ancient Alterity in the Andes: A Recognition of Others
George F. Lau, "Ancient Alterity in the Andes: A Recognition of Others"
English | ISBN: 0415519225 | 2012 | 200 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0415519225 | 2012 | 200 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and ethnography. Having gained steam in concert with postmodernism’s emphasis on self-reflection and discourse, it is especially significant now as a framework to understand the process of ‘writing’ and understanding the Other: groups, cultures and cosmologies. This book showcases this concept by illustrating how people visualised others in the past, and how it coloured their engagements with them, both physically and cognitively.
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