Translating Worlds : The Epistemological Space of Translation.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction - Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation - William F. Hanks and Carlo Severi -- Chapter One - The space of translation - William F. Hanks -- Chapter Two - Transmutating beings: A proposal for an anthropology of thought - Carlo Severi -- Chapter Three - Powers of incomprehension: Linguistic otherness, translators and political structure in New Guinea tourism encounters - Rupert Stasch -- Chapter Four - Healing translations: Moving between worlds in Achuar shamanism - Anne-Christine Taylor -- Chapter Five - Bilingual language learning and the translation of worlds in the New Guinea Highlands and beyond - Alan Rumsey -- Chapter Six - Culinary subjectification: The translated world of menus and orders - Adam Yuet Chau -- Chapter Seven - All translation is radical translation - Bruce Mannheim -- Chapter Eight - Acting translation: Ritual and prophetism in twenty-first-century indigenous Amazonia - Carlos Fausto and Emmanuel de Vienne -- Chapter Nine - Words and worlds: Ethnography and theories of translation - John Leavitt -- Chapter Ten - On the very possibility of mutual intelligibility - G. E. R. Lloyd -- Index.

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