Translating Past to Present : Interpreters in the American West and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Offenburger, Andrew.

Contributor:

Limerick, Patricia Nelson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

Intercultural communication--West (U.S.)--History.

Intercultural communication.

Translating and interpreting--West (U.S.)--History.

Translating and interpreting.

West (U.S.)--Languages.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2025.

Summary:

" The act of interpretation has been central to Western American history. At every historical juncture, interpreters were active and present-conveying meaning between people speaking mutually unintelligible languages, bartering for goods and power along borders, and translating intentions from gestures, acts, and words. While research on interpreters within zones of cultural exchange has grown among scholars of early modern Europe and Asia, the historiography of interpreters of the American West remains deficient.Translating Past to Present offers a new perspective on the historical significance of interpretation and translation. This collection explores how the current sparse historiography relates to a lack of transparency about interpretive acts, both in historical and contemporary practices, and calls attention to the subjectivity of interpretive acts and historians' role in shaping how historical messages are represented. By summoning interpreters from the margins of history, Translating Past to Present spans broad geographies and chronologies to provide a long-overdue examination of the practices of interpretation in the American West. "-- Provided by publisher.

"Translating Past to Present summons interpreters from the margins of history to understand the role they have played in the history of the American West and provide a long-overdue examination of the practices of interpretation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Message and a Dance for Zebulon Pike

From Indigenous Interpreters to Creole Control: Race, Translation, and Exclusion in Yucatan, 1560-1633 / Mark Lentz

Misinterpreting for James Wilkinson

Captains of Civility: The Indigenous Interpreters of North America Who Attempted to School Settler Colonists on the Ideals of Civil Community / Nicole Eustace

Maungwudaus Maintains Peace

William Wells...Interpreter? / Cameron Shriver

Ma-Son-Ne John Simpson Smith

Translating Slavery / Alice Baumgartner

Jeffrey Deroine, Freedman and Ioway Interpreter

The Interpreter Generation: Boarding School Survivors, Euro-American Scholars, and Chiricahua Apache History in the Twentieth Century / Paul Conrad

Changing Names

Diplomacy in the Aftermath of Pancho Villa's Raid: Consul Antonio Landín in Columbus, 1917-1920 / Brandon Morgan

John Collier: No Hands Raised

Interpreters of Diné dóó Gáamalii Oral Histories / Farina King

Rough Interpretations

"Do You Solemnly Swear to Interpret Accurately and without Bias?": Professional Court Interpreting in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century / Taylor Cozzens

Dueling Interpretations

Puente, ຂົວ, Bridge: Interpreting for Social Transformation in Storm Lake, Iowa / Andrew Offenburger

Interpreting for and in Vietnam

Keeping Faith: Interpreters in the Global War on Terror / Zach Guiliano

Call Me Phillip Morris

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction

Andrew Offenburger and Patricia Limerick A Message and a Dance for Zebulon Pike Part 1. Interpreting for and with Empire 1. From Indigenous Interpreters to Creole Control: Race, Translation, and Exclusion in Yucatan, 1560-1633

Mark Lentz Misinterpreting for James Wilkinson 2. Captains of Civility: The Indigenous Interpreters of North America Who Attempted to School Settler Colonists on the Ideals of Civil Community

Nicole Eustace Maungwudaus Maintains Peace 3. William Wells . . . Interpreter?

Cameron Shriver Ma-Son-Ne John Simpson Smith Part 2. Along the Borders of Consolidating Power 4. Translating Slavery

Alice Baumgartner Jeffrey Deroine, Freedman and Ioway Interpreter 5. The Interpreter Generation: Boarding School Survivors, Euro-American Scholars, and Chiricahua Apache History in the Twentieth Century

Paul Conrad Changing Names 6. Diplomacy in the Aftermath of Pancho Villa's Raid: Consul Antonio Landín in Columbus, 1917-1920

Brandon Morgan John Collier: No Hands Raised 7. Interpreters of Dine dóó Gáamalii Oral Histories

Farina King Rough Interpretations Part 3. Interpreting in Practice 8. "Do You Solemnly Swear to Interpret Accurately and without Bias?": Professional Court Interpreting in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Taylor Cozzens Dueling Interpretations

9. Puente, ຂົວ, Bridge: Interpreting for Social Transformation in Storm Lake, Iowa

Andrew Offenburger Interpreting for and in Vietnam 10. Keeping Faith: Interpreters in the Global War on Terror

Zach Guiliano Call Me Phillip Morris Contributors Index .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4962-4401-X

1-4962-4400-1

9781496244000

OCLC:

1543036168