Table of contents
Preface1
Chapter 1.Translating in the Pacific. Rendering the Christian Bible in the islanders’ tongues13
Chapter 2.Recent tradition in Australia39
Chapter 3.Japanese conceptualizations of ‘Translation’55
Chapter 4.Contemporary scene of translation in China81
Chapter 5.From plagiarism to incense sticks: The making of self and the other in translation history in Thai105
Chapter 6.More or less ‘translation’: Landscapes of language and communication in India125
Chapter 7.The Persian tradition149
Chapter 8.The notion of translation in the Arab world: A critical developmental perspective169
Chapter 9.Traditions of translation in Hebrew culture193
Chapter 10.Altaic tradition: Turkey215
Chapter 11.Translation tradition throughout South African history243
Chapter 12.Translation traditions in Angola271
Chapter 13.The culture(s) of translation in Russia287
Chapter 14.The concept of translation in Slavic cultures309
Chapter 15.The Greek-speaking tradition323
Chapter 16.Latin/Romance tradition341
Chapter 17.Germanic tradition355
Chapter 18.Hispanic South America375
Chapter 19.The history of translation in Brazil through the centuries: In search of a tradition395
Chapter 20.Translation in Central America and Mexico419
Chapter 21.Translation and North America: A reframing443
Postface465
Bio-notes471
Index of languages, people, toponyms481
Name index485
Subject index491
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