Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting : Voices from Around the World / edited by Luc̕a Ruiz Rosendo & Jesús Baigorri-Jalón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía, author.

Baigorri Jalón, Jesús, author.

Contributor:

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 159.

Benjamins Translation Library ; v. 159

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Translators--History.

Translators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Voices from around the world

Background

A few comments about the title

Structure and content

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 2. Indigenous interpreters on trial in the Spanish Empire

Interpreters and justice in the Spanish Empire: A brief historical overview

Hernando Uz: A Maya nobleman who became the governor of Yucatán's interpreter

Expectations, trust, and fidelity ties in the framing of the interpreter's space

The criminalization of the interpreter's political influence

Final comments

Chapter 3. Interpreters of Mapudungun and the Chilean State during the 1880-1930 period

The Spanish-Mapudungun socio-linguistic landscape: From the colonial period to the 19th century

19th-century interpreters: Between Mapuche society and the state

Pivotal interpreters: The transition from Colony to Republic

Interpreters in territorial occupation and the establishment of the Republican state

The Burgos family

The Colipi family

Resistance, collaboration, autonomization: Literates and pettifoggers

Concluding remarks

Chapter 4. An overview of the role of interpreters during the Portuguese expansion through Africa (1415-1600)

Introduction

The mediators of the Portuguese expansion through Morocco

Spies and captives

Alfaqueques

Official interpreters

Mediators in the "Castilian zone"

Mediation in Sub-Saharan Western Africa

The interpreters of Guinea

Slave-interpreters

Lançados

"Institutional" interpreters

Situations and areas requiring interpreters

Interpreters' compensation

Interpreters in the Kongo: A special case

Interpreters with training and prestige

Interpreters for sacramental confessions

The end of a communication paradigm

Communication with Angola

Mediation in Eastern Africa

Slave-interpreters and lançados

Muslim merchants

Conclusion

Primary Sources

Secondary sources

Chapter 5. Mediating a complex cultural matrix

French colonialism, Muslim interpreters, and the Senegal River Valley in the mid-1800s

Retrieving African voices: The "Colonial Library" and beyond

Muslim interpreters as mediators and historians as knowledge producers

Chapter 6. Interpreting with "human sympathy"

Historical overview: Interpreting and translation by Western missionaries in Japan

From Jesuits' arrival to their expulsion (1549-1639)

From the reopening of Japan to the outbreak of the Pacific War (1854-1941)

The Pacific War and the occupation of Japan

In preparation for war

Repatriated missionaries and children of missionaries

Return to Japan as occupation forces

Discussion

Chapter 7. The colonized in conflict.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 20, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting

ISBN:

9027254052

9789027254054

Publisher Number:

40031626370

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