Theorizing Otherness Cultural Encounter and the Politics of Ethnographic Representation
This article examines how the notion of Otherness is produced, negotiated, and contested within the encounter between the anthropologist and the informant. Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory -notably the work of James Clifford, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Michel Foucault, and Clifford Geertz- the...