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Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse (Exploration in Anthropology)

By Gisli Palsson

Book information

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Year
1994
ISBN
085496813X, 9780854968138
LCC
GN13 .B48 1992
Open Library ID
OL1708521M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11482846 bytes)
Pages
138\138
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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