Translating worlds : the epistemological space of translation / William F. Hanks, Carlo Severi ; [edited by] William F. Hanks, Carlo Severi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanks, William F., author.

Series:

Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory Series

Special issues in ethnographic theory ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Severi, Carlo, editor.

Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : HAU Books, 2015.

Summary:

Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide for twenty-first century anthropology, gathering together contributions from leading thinkers in.

Contents:

Translating worlds: the epistemological space of translation / William F. Hanks and Carlo Severi

The space of translation / William F. Hanks

Transmutating beings: a proposal for an anthropology of thought / Carlo Severi

Powers of incomprehension: linguistic otherness, translators and political structure in New Guinea tourism encounters / Rupert Stasch

Healing translations: moving between worlds in Achuar shamanism / Anne-Christine Taylor

Bilingual language learning and the translation of worlds in the New Guinea Highlands and beyond / Allan Rumsey

Culinary subjetification: the translated worlds of menus and order / Adam Yuet Chou

All translation is radical translation / Bruce Mannheim

Acting translation: ritual and prophetism in twenty-first-century indigenous Amazonia / Carlos Fausto and Emmanuel de Vienne

Words and worlds: ethnography and theories of translation / John Leavitt

On the very possibility of mutual intelligibility / G.E.R. Lloyd.

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ISBN:

1-912808-19-6

OCLC:

1052567033