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Translating Worlds
Carlo Severi
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Description for Translating Worlds
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HAU United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780986132513
SKU
V9780986132513
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99-1
About Carlo Severi
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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