Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other

The imperial underpinning of the early anthropology Pakistan constituted “the other” as a subject comprehension, categorization, and containment. Later, with post-9/11 geopolitical backdrop, anthropologists focused on selected themes such religious ethnic disparity political nationalism, eliding some topics or groups. What would it mean for to consider alienated groups while emphasizing infinity Other? How conceiving Other beyond other, even human subject, create possibility decolonizing exploring multiple futures—emergent, imagined, expected? Such an approach critically moots reexamination theoretical, methodological, epistemological tenets urges discipline engage diverse lifeworlds. It brings face face-to-face humanity all beings, intersubjective collaborative experiences, shared values.