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" Translation," here, is not a simple recasting of others' ways of putting things in terms of our own ways of putting them (that is the kind in which things get lost), but displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locutions of ours... "
Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology - Page 9
by Clifford Geertz - 2008 - 464 pages
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Social Approaches to Communication

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 276 pages
...translation is desirable not because it provides a one-toone comparison or a simple recasting of other's ways of putting things in terms of our own ways of putting them. Rather, translation involves "displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locutions of...
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The Judicial Isolation of the "racially" Oppressed

E. Nathaniel Gates - Law - 1997 - 444 pages
...suggesting we look at the Mashpee case. As Clifford Geertz has put it in the anthropological context: "Translation," here, is not a simple recasting of...putting things in terms of our own ways of putting them . . . but displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locutions of ours; a conception...
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Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee ...

Adelaida Reyes - Political refugees - 1999 - 218 pages
...place and at that time. Of particular interest to me was the kind of translation that Geertz describes: "not a simple recasting of others' ways of putting things in terms of our own ways of putting (that is the kind in which things get lost), but displaying the logic of their ways of putting them...
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Das Fremde verstehen - Grundlagen einer kulturanthropologischen Exegese ...

Klaus Neumann - Annales school - 2000 - 500 pages
...anthropologist has to do to bring this kind of thing off is tack between the tvvo sorts of description - between increasingly fine-comb observations (of how...terms of our own ways of putting them (that is the way in which things get lost), but displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locution...
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The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India

Martine van Wœrkens - History - 2002 - 392 pages
...a simple recasting of others' ways of putting things in terms of our own ways of putting them . . . but displaying the logic of their ways of putting...again brings it rather closer to what a critic does to illuminate a poem than what an astronomer does to account for a star. 12. This analysis has been inspired...
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The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory

Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen - Business & Economics - 2003 - 680 pages
...the native's emic into the translator's community's etic, blurring boundaries between emic and etic: 'Translation,' here, is not a simple recasting of...of ours; a conception which again brings it rather close to what a critic does to illumine a poem than what an astronomer does to account for a star....
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The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and ...

Helen M. Rozwadowski, David K. Van Keuren - Oceanography - 2004 - 408 pages
...community. As anthropologist Clifford Geertz described it, this insightful and penetrating activity is not a simple recasting of others' ways of putting...displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locution of ours; a conception which again brings it rather closer to what a critic does to illumine...
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Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

Ted Solis - Art - 2004 - 340 pages
...translation of this sort is not simply a "recasting of others' ways of putting things into our own," but "displaying the logic of their ways of putting them in the locutions of ours" (1983: 10). Here, "translation" requires our own interpretive and expressive processes in taking the...
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