Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse

by Gisli Palsson (Editor)

Overview

Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' in a very genuine sense. What lessons may be learned from these developments for anthropology? In Beyond Boundaries, ten anthropologists from different countries address the problem of social understanding and cultural translation from different theoretical as well as ethnographic perspectives. Quite appropriately, given the general theme of the volume, the contributors represent several different academic traditions and communities - Britain, Finland, France, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Norway, the former Soviet Union, and Sweden.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859730218
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/09/1994
Series:	Explorations in Anthropology
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gisli Palsson is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Iceland

Editorial Reviews

... the first of its kind to touch upon the idea of understanding social life through discourse.” —Informations bibliographiques et lexicographiques

From the Publisher

... the first of its kind to touch upon the idea of understanding social life through discourse.

Informations bibliographiques et lexicographiques