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Translating Cultures Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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The task of the anthropologist is to take ideas, concepts and beliefs from one culture and translate them into first another language, and then into the language of anthropology. This process is both fascinating and complex. Not only does it raise questions about the limitations of language, but it also challenges the ability of the anthropologist to communicate culture accurately. In recent... Read more
ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiNotes on ContributorsixIntroduction: Translation and AnthropologyPaula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman1Part I: General Problems of Translation1Lyotard and Wittengenstein and the Question of TranslationAram A. Yengoyan252Translation and Belief Ascription: Fundamental BarriersTodd Jones453Translation, Transduction, Transformation: Skating "Glossando" on Thin Semiotic IceMichael Silverstein75Part II Specific Applications4The Unspeakable in pursuit of the Ineffable: Representations ofUntranslatability in Ethnographic DiscourseMichael Herzfeld1095Translating Folk Theories of TranslationDeborah Kapchan1356Second Language, National Language, Modern Language and Post-Colonial Dilemmas of VoiceWebb Keane1537Notes on TransliterationBrinkley Messick177 8The Ethnographer as PontifexBenson Saler197 9Text Translation as Prelude for Soul TranslationAlan F. Segal21310Structural Impediments to Translation in ArtWyatt MacGaffey24911Are Kinship Terminologies and Kinship Concepts Translatable?Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel269Index285
Biography
Paula G. Rubel Professor Emerita of Anthropology,Barnard College, Columbia University and Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History Abraham Rosman Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University and Research Associate,American Museum of Natural History
