Ideological Background of Intercultural Dialogue in Social Anthropology

The article centers on various ideological patterns of the other in socio-anthropological discourse and demonstrates that these patterns influence the practice of intercultural communication, necessary for field studies in this discipline. The article emphasizes one of the conditions of a dialogue with representatives of simple societies, that is a position of social anthropologists, who should be eager to understand the other in his/her unique cultural milieu and at the same time critically reflect the limits of their own ways of life.