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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 11–16

Anthropology and translation

| University of Palermo
Article outline
  • 1.Ways of translating cultures
  • 2.Fieldwork manuscripts
  • 3.Perspectives on translation and cultural complexity
  • References
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.ant2
References
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1986 “The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology.” In Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ed. by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, 141–164. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
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2019 “Relativism and Intercultural Translation.” Paradigmi 2 (3): 449–466.Google Scholar
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1986 Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
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1973 “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.” In The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, 3–30. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
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2015 Critical Christianity. Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea. Oakland: University of California Press.Google Scholar
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Further essential reading

Duranti, Alessandro
2001 Linguistic Anthropology. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Maranhão, Tullio, and Bernhard Streck
(eds) 2003 Translation and ethnography. The Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural Understanding. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Google Scholar
Rubel, Paula, and Abraham Rosman
(eds) 2003 Translating cultures. Perspectives on translation and anthropology. Oxford: Berg. Google Scholar
Sammons, Kay, and Joel Sherzer
(eds) 2000 Translating Native American Verbal Art. Ethnopoetics and Etnhography of Speaking. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.Google Scholar
Sturge, Kate
2007 Representing Others: Translation, Ethnography and the Museum. Manchester: St. Jerome.Google Scholar