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Translating cultures : perspectives on translation and anthropology

Author: Paula G Rubel; Abraham Rosman
Publisher: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, 2003.
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Translating cultures.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003
(OCoLC)682879869
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paula G Rubel; Abraham Rosman
ISBN: 1859737404 9781859737408 1859737455 9781859737453
OCLC Number: 51460467
Description: xi, 289 p. : 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction, Translation and anthropology / Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman --
Lyotard and Wittgenstein and the question of translation / Aram A. Yengoyan --
Translation and belief ascription : fundamental barriers / Todd Jones --
Translation, transduction, transformation : skating "glossando" on thin semiotic ice / Michael Silverstein --
Unspeakable in pursuit of the ineffable : representations of untranslatability in ethnographic discourse / Michael Herzfeld --
Translating folk theories of translation / Deborah Kapchan --
Second language, national language, modern language, and post-colonial voice : on Indonesian / Webb Keane --
Notes on transliteration / Brinkley Messick --
Ethnographer as pontifex / Benson Saler --
Text translation as a prelude for soul translation / Alan F. Segal --
Structural impediments to translation in art / Wyatt MacGaffey --
Are kinship terminologies and kinship concepts translatable? / Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel.
Responsibility: edited by Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman.

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