Translating Cultures

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Translation and Anthropology Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman 1 Part I: General Problems of Translation 1 Lyotard and Wittengenstein and the Question of Translation Aram A. Yengoyan 25 2 Translation and Belief Ascription: Fundamental Barriers Todd Jones 45 3 Translation, Transduction, Transformation: Skating Glossando on Thin Semiotic Ice Michael Silverstein 75 Part II Specific Applications 4 The Unspeakable in pursuit of the Ineffable: Representations of Untranslatability in Ethnographic Discourse Michael Herzfeld 109 5 Translating Folk Theories of Translation Deborah Kapchan 135 6 Second Language, National Language, Modern Language and Post-Colonial Dilemmas of Voice Webb Keane 153 7 Notes on Transliteration Brinkley Messick 177 8 The Ethnographer as Pontifex Benson Saler 197 9 Text Translation as Prelude for Soul Translation Alan F. Segal 213 10 Structural Impediments to Translation in Art Wyatt MacGaffey 249 11 Are Kinship Terminologies and Kinship Concepts Translatable? Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel 269 Index 285

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