1st Edition
Beyond Boundaries Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse
Edited By Gisli Palsson
Copyright 1994
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' in a very genuine sense. What lessons may be learned from these developments for anthropology? In... Read more
Introduction - beyond boundaries, Mediations in the global ecumene, Doves, hawks, and anthropology - the Israeli debate on Middle Eastern settlement proposals, Foreign myths and sagas in Japan - the academics and the cartoonist, The anthropologist as shaman - interpreting recent political events in Armenia, Household words - attention, agency, and the ethnography of fishing, Acting cool and being safe - the definition of skill in a Swedish railway yard, Interpreting and explaining cultural representations, Beyond the words - the power of resonance, The art of translation in a continuous world.
Biography
Gisli Palsson is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Iceland
