Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse (Explorations in Anthropology) - Softcover

 
9781859730218: Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse (Explorations in Anthropology)
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Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' in a very genuine sense. What lessons may be learned from these developments for anthropology? In Beyond Boundaries, ten anthropologists from different countries address the problem of social understanding and cultural translation from different theoretical as well as ethnographic perspectives. Quite appropriately, given the general theme of the volume, the contributors represent several different academic traditions and communities - Britain, Finland, France, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Norway, the former Soviet Union, and Sweden.

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Gisli Palsson is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Iceland

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1859730213
ISBN 13 
9781859730218
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272
Editor
Palsson Gisli

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