The First Person Singular

List of Photographs

145 Photographs Frontispiece Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993 page 4 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1994 page 22 Wodaabe people, Niger, 2000 page 30 Bhutan, 1996 page 46 Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 1980 page 52 Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 2001 page 66 Mongolia, 2003 page 82 Qosqo, Peru, 1990 page 106 Ororate, Ethiopia, 2000 page 120 Female impersonator, Pattaya, Thailand, 1996 page 128 Sentiai Lakes, West Papua, Indonesia, 1980 Photographs by the author About the Author Alphonso Lingis is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Penn State University and the author of numerous books, including The Imperative, Dangerous Emotions, Trust, and, most recently, Body Transformations. He is also the preeminent English translator of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas. His translations include Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible and Pierre Klossowski’s Sade My Neighbor, both published by Northwestern University Press. ...