Beyond Boundaries (eBook, PDF)

Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse
Redaktion: Palsson, Gisli

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000325041
• Artikelnr.: 60086182

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.