Beyond Boundaries

Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse
Herausgeber: Palsson, Gisli

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Beyond boundaries, ten anthropologist from different countries address the problem of social understanding and cultural translation from different theoretical as well as ethnographic perspectives. unite appropriately, given the general theme of the volume, the contributors represent several different academic traditions and communities - Britain, Finland, France, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Norway, the former Soviet Union, and Sweden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780854968138
• ISBN-10: 085496813X
• Artikelnr.: 21939714

Autorenporträt

Gisli Palsson Professor of Social Anthropology,University of Iceland

Inhaltsangabe

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.