A Sense for the OtherIf the end of exoticism is one of the characteristics of our time, and if classical anthropology based its study of alterity on this exotic distance from the other, is anthropology still possible, and if so, to what end? The author uses these questions as a point of departure for a probing interrogation of ethnological practice, starting with Lvi Strauss. For several years, the author has advocated an anthropology of proximity in place of the usual