Alterity

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Alterity is actually just the philosophical term for otherness and therefore closely connected with Othering. Alterity means being the other, switching your own perspective with another perspective.

Outside of philosophy the term alterity is mostly used in (cultural) anthropology.


By Evelien de Beer & Richard Huttinga

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