alterity (jargon in anthropology, history, sociology, etc.): Alterity is
Otherness and is a neologism constructed on alter-ego after alter-ego is
first reduced to 'alter' where alter means Other in the sense of 'not Self'.
Alterity is a process or state whereby one constructs an identity or part of
an identiy through a system of contrasts with a projected Other. It this
case, Americans and Jordanians construct collective identities in part by
contrasting themselves with the other party.
Alterity often forms a contrast set with the words 'mimesis' and 'mimetic'
that have the meaning 'to copy/copied/copying', or by extension 'to
valorize,value'.
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As for the 'HTML' the astute reader will note that it not really HTML. In
fact, it is probably not even well formed XML.
(Heck, I haven't even checked to see if it is well formed SGML.)
On Monday 17 September 2001 21:26, you wrote:
> At 10:07 PM 9/17/01, you wrote:
> >Forgive me, but - what the hell is "alterity"? I have never heard this
> > word and cannot find it in any dictionary.
> >
> >
> >
> >Tom Beck
>
> alterity /al"tErIti, Ql-/ n.
>
> LME. [Early uses f. late L alteritas, later also f. Fr. alterite: see ALTER
> v., -ITY.]
>
> _1 An alteration. Only in LME.
>
> 2 The state of being other or different, otherness. M17.
>
>
> c Oxford University Press 1973, 1993, 1996
> The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM
>
>
>
> BTW, did anyone else get that post with formatting codes scattered all
> through it? I gave up trying to read it because of all the HTML codes.
>
>
>
> -- Ronn! :)
>
> God bless America,
> Land that I love!
> Stand beside her, and guide her
> Thru the night with a light from above.
> From the mountains, to the prairies,
> To the oceans, white with foam�
> God bless America!
> My home, sweet home.
>
> -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
