Translation and Ethnography: The Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural Understanding

by Tullio Maranhao

To most people, translation means making the words of one language understandable in another; but translation in a broader sense-seeing strangeness and incorporating it into one's understanding-is perhaps the earliest task of the human brain. This book illustrates the translation process in less-common contexts: cultural, religious, even the translation of pain. Its original contributions seek to trace human understanding of the self, of the other,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816523037
• ISBN13: 9780816523030
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"