The articles in this book examine the problems posed to anthropologists by "social understanding" and "cultural translation". Some of the topics discussed in the book include mediations in the global ecumene, foreign myths and sagas in Japan, the anthropologist as shaman - interpreting recent political events in Armenia and the art of translation in a continuous world.
Author Biography
Gisli Palsson is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Iceland
Reviews
' ... the first of its kind to touch upon the idea of understanding social life through discourse.' Informations bibliographiques et lexicographiques
