Translating Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology
Redaktion: Rosman, Abraham; Rubel, Paula G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000180497
• Artikelnr.: 59614564

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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