At 12:12 AM 9/18/01, you wrote:
>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.)
Well, whatever it was, it turned the post into B.M.
(If you need a translation, ask Julia. I'm sure she's had a lot of
experience with them during the past couple of months.)
;-)
-- 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)
