Translating cultures : perspectives on translation and anthropology / edited by Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman.

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Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 11. Are Kinship Terminologies and Kinship Concepts Translatable? / Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel.