Translating cultures perspectives on translation and anthropology - Rubel, Paula G.; Rosman, Abraham (Oxford, UK Berg, 2003)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Communication in ethnology; Ethnology -- Authorship; Translating and interpreting; Intercultural communication