Representing Others
Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used ''translation'' as a metaphor to describe ethnography''s processes of interpretation and cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and representation are central to both translation studies and ethnographic writing - as are the dilemmas of cultural distance or proximity, exotic...
Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used ''translation'' as a metaphor to describe ethnography''s processes of interpretation and cross-cultural comparison. Questions of intelligibility and representation are central to both translation studies and ethnographic writing - as are the dilemmas of cultural distance or proximity, exotic...
