alterity

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Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief.

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  1. The state or quality of being other or different. [Rare.] Your outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge, Notes on Shakspere, II. 295.

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  • As absurd as we can become, as radical alterity shifts our social strata, some things will safely stay the same. —  Hot Chicks with Douchebags
  • The metamorphosis of the CPI (M) into its own terrible alterity (as manifest in Nandigram) is an occasion for all those who remember 1954, —  Kafila
  • Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • The other thing I think is much more organising of the scenario and the racism is the whole terrorism, post 9 / 11 anxieties about alterity about other cultures. —  VideoGamer.com - All Updates
  • The blacks here are clearly being set up as victims, alterity, frightening. —  VideoGamer.com - All Updates
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  1. from Middle Latin alterita(t-)s, from Latin alter, other: see alter.
 

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