Beyond boundaries : understanding, translation, and anthropological discourse /
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| Imprint: | Oxford, UK ; Providence, RI : Berg, 1993. |
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| Description: | xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in anthropology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1396468 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: beyond boundaries / Gisli Palsson
- 2. Mediations in the global ecumene / Ulf Hannerz
- 3. Doves, hawks and anthropology: the Israeli debate on Middle Eastern settlement proposals / Shlomo Deshen
- 4. Foreign myths and sagas in Japan: the academics and the cartoonists / Halldor Stefansson
- 5. The anthropologist as shaman: interpreting recent political events in Armenia / Levon H. Abrahamian
- 6. Household words: attention, agency, and the ethnography of fishing / Gisli Palsson
- 7. Acting cool and being safe: the definition of skill in a Swedish railway yard / Birgitta Edelman
- 8. Interpreting and explaining cultural representations / Dan Sperber
- 9. Beyond the words: the power of resonance / Unni Wikan
- 10. The art of translation in a continuous world / Tim Ingold.