Translation Studies has recently opened up to the postcolonial, initiating an epistemological debate resembling that which marked anthropology some forty years ago. A number of studies have explored the analogy between translators and ethnographers as cultural interpreters and writers. This article continues the investigation by examining how the reflection by ethnographers on the production of knowledge can be useful to contemporary translation theorists. The ethnographic perspective invites us to conceive translation as a production process relying on intermediaries operating in networks. The translated text, thus, no longer appears as the reflection of a society's norms or of a translator's subjectivity, but rather as the expression of the relations between the various intermediaries that have participated in its production.