Interview of Peter‐Jazzy Ezeh by Virginia Dominguez and Emily Metzner on the Subject of Translation

Ezeh, Peter Jazzy; Domínguez, Virginia R.; Metzner, Emily

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“…Another interesting perspective on this is offered by Peter-Jazzy Ezeh in an interview with Virginia Dominguez and Emily Metzner that is included in the same 'World Anthropologies' section as Chibnik's article. Responding to a question from Metzner about whether anthropologists have 'something of a professional duty' to use their skills to translate anthropological and non-anthropological texts, Ezeh (2019) 2022) study of ethnographic methods syllabi referred to in the previous section strongly suggests that training in translation skills is not currently a prominent component of such courses. If this is the case then it is, I think, a missed opportunity.…”

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“…Another interesting perspective on this is offered by Peter-Jazzy Ezeh in an interview with Virginia Dominguez and Emily Metzner that is included in the same ‘World Anthropologies’ section as Chibnik’s article. Responding to a question from Metzner about whether anthropologists have ‘something of a professional duty’ to use their skills to translate anthropological and non-anthropological texts, Ezeh (2019) remarks,I think that translation skill is important to anthropological practice. [.…”

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Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology

Gibb

2023

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This article argues that while translation as a metaphor was prominent in anglophone anthropology for most of the second half of the 20th century, the practices of interlingual translation that are often central to the production and circulation of disciplinary knowledge have tended to attract much less attention. The first main section begins by briefly reviewing debates about the idea that anthropology crucially involves ‘the translation of culture’ or ‘cultural translation’. This use of translation as a metaphor to characterize the discipline emerged within both UK and US anthropology in the 1950s, but subsequently became subject to sustained criticism. The focus of the article then shifts in the second and third sections to practices of translation in, respectively, anthropological fieldwork and the international circulation of anthropological texts. More specifically, it examines the difficulties associated with interlingual translation in fieldwork and ethnographic writing; the hidden or invisible ‘translation work’ undertaken in the past by the assistants and spouses of ethnographers; and the translation of anthropological work into other languages. The article concludes by calling on more anthropologists to publish detailed accounts of their own translation practices, arguing that in so doing they will be able to draw on valuable historical antecedents from within the discipline, important collections of anthropological reflections on translation that have appeared over the past 30 years, as well as on relevant work by translation studies scholars and sociologists of translation.

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Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology

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2023

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Japanese ethnographies of the Pacific: Language, politics and perspective

Maggio

2019

Journal of New Zealand &Amp; Pacific Studies

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An increasing number of Japanese ethnographers have conducted fieldwork research in Pacific Islands in the last few decades, which has resulted in a growing corpus of ethnographic literature. This is partly related to the historical role that Japan has played in the Pacific and partly to its geographical proximity to the area. While this geo-historical advantage combines with the availability of ethnographic works produced by non-Japanese scholars, the latter remain largely unable to access anthropological literature only available in Japanese. This not only limits the international circulation of ethnographies produced by Japanese anthropologists of the Pacific, but also the possibility of engaging with a larger body of anthropological traditions and, thus, with the overall project of 'World Anthropologies'. This article discusses the reasons why Japanese ethnographies of the Pacific provide not only a technical advantage for non-Japanese scholars of Pacific Islands but also a qualitative difference in terms of anthropological perspectives. In particular, it examines the differential impact of different colonial and postcolonial debates on Japanese and anglophone anthropology in relation to ethnographies of urban Melanesia.

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Interview of Peter‐Jazzy Ezeh by Virginia Dominguez and Emily Metzner on the Subject of Translation

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Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology

Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology

Japanese ethnographies of the Pacific: Language, politics and perspective

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