CONTENTS
Illustrations ......................................................................................... vii
Maps ..................................................................................................... ix
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ xiii
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
Chapter I. Th e ‘Outside’ Other ....................................................... 13
I.1. Th e Other is ‘locked behind walls’, or about the role
of the initial visual demarcation ......................................... 13
I.2. About freedom and otherness and the signs and images
of usness and otherness ......................................................... 40
I.3. World religions and otherness ............................................. 64
Chapter II. Th e ‘Inside’ Other ......................................................... 85
II.1. Th e female otherness (combining bow and ‘female
work’, or between order and chaos) .................................. 86
II.2. Smiths and shamans/magicians/koloburs, or the
inevitable but necessary otherness ..................................... 110
II.3. Th e Otherness of those (aristocrats) professing
non-state religion ................................................................. 119
Conclusion .......................................................................................... 127
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 131
Index .................................................................................................... 147
Illustrations Section