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Cultural translation
About: Cultural translation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 805 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25074 citations.
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as mentioned in this paper, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
Abstract: Acknowledgements, Introduction: Locations of culture, 1. The commitment to theory, 2. Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative, 3. The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism, 4. Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse, 5. Sly civility, 6. Signs taken for wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817, 7. Articulating the archaic: Cultural difference and colonial nonsense, 8. DissemiNation: Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation, 9. The postcolonial and the postmodern: The question of agency, 10. By bread alone: Signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century, 11. How newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12. Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity, Notes, Index.
14,727 citations
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, a genealogies of the concept of ritual in medieval Christian monasticism is discussed. But the focus is on the construction of religion as an anthropological category toward a genealogy of the concepts of ritual.
Abstract: Part 1 Genealogies: the construction of religion as an anthropological category toward a genealogy of the concept of ritual. Part 2 Archaisms: pain and truth in medieval Christian ritual on discipline and humility in medieval Christian monasticism. Part 3 Translations: the concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology the limits of religious criticism in the Middle East. Part 4 Polemics: multiculturalism and British identity in the wake of the Rushdie affair ethnography, literature and politics - some readings and uses of Salmon Rushdie's "Satanic Verses".
2,179 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of observation of multilingual practices and metalanguage commentaries by three Chinese youths in Britain was used to examine the creativity and criticality of these practices, the identity positions they construct and present for themselves, and the social spaces they create and occupy within the wider space they find themselves in.
1,056 citations
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Turbulence of Migration: The ability to move and define migrants as mentioned in this paper is a well-known topic in the field of political science and it has been studied extensively in the literature.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Turbulence of Migration. 2. Mapping Global Migration. 3. The Ability to Move: Defining Migrants. 4. Globalization and Migration. 5. The Deterritorialization of Culture. 6. The Limits of Cultural Translation. 7. Philosophical Frameworks and the Politics of Cultural Difference. 8. Tracing Hybridity in Theory. 9. Conclusion: Clusters in the Diaspora. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
496 citations