Translation Theories Explored

Translation, Ethnography and Museum

By: Kate Sturge

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Paperback | 24 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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, exoticism or appropriation. Similarly, recent work in museum studies discusses problems of representation that are raised by ethnographic museums as multimedia ''translations''. However, as yet there has been remarkably little interdisciplinary exchange: neither has translation studies kept up with the sophistication of anthropology''s investigations of meaning, representation and ''culture'' itself, nor have anthropology and museum studies often looked to translation studies for analyses of language difference or concrete methods of tracing translation practices.

This book opens up an exciting field of study to translation scholars and suggests possible avenues of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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