Translating Worlds: The Epistemological Space of Translation (Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory) - Tapa blanda

 
9780986132513: Translating Worlds: The Epistemological Space of Translation (Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory)
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ISBN 10: 0986132519 ISBN 13: 9780986132513
Editorial: HAU, 2015

Sinopsis

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 the field.

Since Ferdinand de Saussure and Franz Boas, languages have been seen as systems whose differences make precise translation nearly impossible. And still others have viewed translation between languages as principally indeterminate. The contributors here argue that the challenge posed by the constant confrontation between incommensurable worlds and systems may be the most fertile ground for state-of-the-art ethnographic theory and practice. Ranging from tourism in New Guinea to shamanism in the Amazon to the globally ubiquitous restaurant menu, the contributors mix philosophy and ethnography to redefine translation not only as a key technique for understanding ethnography but as a larger principle in epistemology.

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Acerca del autor

Carlo Severi is professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. William F. Hanks is the Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology and director of Social Science Matrix at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Editorial
HAU
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0986132519
ISBN 13 
9780986132513
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
338
Editor
Severi Carlo, Hanks William F.
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