Wang Mingming

　　Department of Anthropology, Peking University

　　Abstract：Why should human beings be divided into “us” or “them”? This question underlies the basic proposition of anthropology. In fact, it has never received a decisive answer. In the dialogue between Marshall Sahlins and Wang Mingming, the two agree that “we are part of the other,” because it is to the other that we owe the constitution of our full selves. The modernity of diversity and plurality supports the validity of this judgment.

　　Keywords: the Other, cultural diversity, self