Translating cultures : perspectives on translation and anthropology
by
 
Rosman, Abraham.

Title
Translating cultures : perspectives on translation and anthropology

Author
Rosman, Abraham.

ISBN
9781859737408
 
9781859737453

Publication Information
Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2003.

Physical Description
p. cm.

Contents
11. Are Kinship Terminologies and Kinship Concepts Translatable? / Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel.
 
Introduction: Translation and Anthropology / Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman -- 1. Lyotard and Wittgenstein and the Question of Translation / Aram A. Yengoyan -- 2. Translation and Belief Ascription: Fundamental Barriers / Todd Jones -- 3. Translation, Transduction, Transformation: Skating "Glossando" on Thin Semiotic Ice / Michael Silverstein -- 4. The Unspeakable in Pursuit of the Ineffable: Representations of Untranslatability in Ethnographic Discourse / Michael Herzfeld -- 5. Translating Folk Theories of Translation / Deborah Kapchan -- 6. Second Language, National Language, Modern Language, and Post-Colonial Voice: On Indonesian / Webb Keane -- 7. Notes on Transliteration / Brinkley Messick -- 8. The Ethnographer as Pontifex / Benson Saler -- 9. Text Translation as a Prelude for Soul Translation / Alan F. Segal -- 10. Structural Impediments to Translation in Art / Wyatt MacGaffey.

Subject Term
Communication in ethnology.
 
Ethnology -- Authorship.
 
Translating and interpreting.
 
Intercultural communication.

Added Author
Rosman, Abraham.
 
Rubel, Paula G.


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