Description
Book SynopsisAs the sequel to
Groups (2013) and
Institutions (2017),
Others is the third work produced by a collaborative research project involving primatologists and anthropologists on the evolutionary historical foundations of human sociality. This book presents cutting edge research into the meaning of "the other" and the dynamic process of "othering".
Each of the eighteen chapters examines various aspects of "others" via the researchers' specialties, with subject matter ranging from the disappearance of the alpha male in a chimpanzees group to the way the other is produced amongst Canadian Inuit through their relationship with wild animals. What is generated is a unique collection of essays that is both grounded in empirical evidence and strengthened by its intricate engagement with the depth and breadth of theoretical work on the topic of "the other", as it furthers our understanding of the nature of human sociality.
Table of Contents
- Figures
- Photographs
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction--Finding ""Others"" from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Search for the Evolutionary Historical Foundations of Human Sociality
- Kaori Kawai
- Part I: Aspects of Others: Emergence, Formation and Transformation
- 1 Approving Others and Incomprehensible Others in Primate Society
- Suehisa Kuroda
- 2 Are Animals ""Others"" or Are There ""Others"" to Animals?
- Michio Nakamura
- 3 When Others Appear
- Toru Soga
- 4 ""The Other Who Can Refuse"": A Precondition for Transition to Human Society
- K?ji Kitamura
- 5 Empathy and Social Evolution: The Human History of Understanding Others
- Hitoshige Hayaki
- Part II: Others and Other Groups: How to Interact with the Counterpart
- 6 Who Is the Alpha Male? The Appearance of the ""Other"" in Chimpanzee Society
- Hitonaru Nishie
- 7 Encountering the ""Other"": How Chimpanzees Face Indeterminacy
- Noriko Itoh
- 8 When Pricking Up One's Ears for the Voices of Strangers: Others in Chimpanzee Society
- Shunkichi Hanamura
- 9 The Origins of ""Consideration for One's Enemy"": What Kind of Others Are Neighboring Groups to the Dodoth?
- Kaori Kawai
- Part III: The Representation and Ontology of Others in Humankind
- 10 The Ontology of the Other: The Evolutionary Basis of Human Sociality and Ethics in the Formation and Continuation of Inuit Society
- Keiichi Omura
- 11 Ancestral Spirits, Witchcraft and Phases of the Other in Everyday Life: The Case of the Bemba People of Zambia
- Yuko Sugiyama
- 12 The ""Face"" and the Other: Muslim Women Behind the Veil
- Ryoko Nishii
- 13 Morality and Instrumentality: A Practical Approach to Theorizing the Other
- Masakazu Tanaka
- Part IV: The Expanding Horizons of the Theory of Others
- 14 The Spirit as the Other: From the Iban Ethnography
- Motomitsu Uchibori
- 15 A History of the Distance Between Humans and Wildlife
- Gen Yamakoshi
- 16 Toward the Environmental Others: An Ethological Essay on Equilibrium and Coexistence
- Kaoru Adachi
- 17 Society as a ""Story"": Work Sharing, Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Otherness
- Y?ji Takenoshita
- 18 The Turing Test in the Wild: When Non Human ""Things"" Become Others
- Ikuya Tokoro
- Epilogue--Future Agenda, Others as an Affliction: Tripartite Relationships and the Tetrahedral Model
- Takeo Funabiki
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
