Publishing Translations

Chibnik, Michael

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“…In the end, he was only able to publish the Spanish translation in 2017, several years after he had retired and having spent US$10,000 of his own money to cover translation and book subvention costs (Chibnik, 2019: 209). Chibnik (2019) acknowledges that this is just one specific case, and that the translation of 'canonical anthropological books' with high sales in their original language is likely to be less difficult than that of ethnographic monographs with more 'limited sales and readership ' (p. 209). In reflecting on his experiences, however, he makes the point, also highlighted by Bielsa, that translating social scientific texts into other languages is not generally regarded as a valuable activity.…”

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“…In the main article, entitled ‘Publishing Translations’, Michael Chibnik (2003, 2019) provides a thought-provoking account of the process of publishing a Spanish translation of his book Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings (2003) in Mexico. As he explains, he wanted the results of his research to be available in Spanish so that they would be accessible to various audiences: the Mexican artisans whose work he had studied; Oaxacans and other Mexicans interested in the topic; and university teachers, students, and museum directors in Mexico who might not be able to read the English-language edition (Chibnik, 2019: 207). The translation and publication of a Spanish version of the book proved, however, to be a time-consuming, expensive, and complicated undertaking.…”

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“…The translation and publication of a Spanish version of the book proved, however, to be a time-consuming, expensive, and complicated undertaking. In the end, he was only able to publish the Spanish translation in 2017, several years after he had retired and having spent US$10,000 of his own money to cover translation and book subvention costs (Chibnik, 2019: 209).…”

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“…Working on this project would have been regarded as a distraction from the more important work of publishing in prestigious Anglophone journals and university presses. (Chibnik, 2019: 209)…”

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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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“…Rees in general agrees with this position, saying that she makes sure that her collaborators know what has been shared about them to others. Because I also think it is important to share data, I arranged for a Spanish translation of my book about Oaxacan wood carvers (Chibnik 2003, 2017, 2019). However, sharing data is another aspect of participatory research that can be ethically complicated (Cooper 2007).…”

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Practical and Ethical Complications of Participatory Research

Chibnik

2020

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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P r a c t i c a l a n d E t h i c a l C o m p l i c a t i o n s o f P a r t i c ip a t o r y R e s e a r c h E thnographers conducting research ordinarily have multiple goals. While gathering in-depth information about topics of interest, they are also often planning to improve their scholarly reputations and advance their careers by writing articles and books about their findings. Achieving these goals is impossible without the help of the people anthropologists variously call informants, interlocutors, and collaborators. 1 Because ethnographers recognize their debts to their collaborators, they usually thank them in the acknowledgments accompanying their publications. Anthropological codes of ethics almost always begin with the injunction to cause no harm to the people they work with. Ethnographers differ, however, in the extent to which they think they have additional obligations. Some anthropologists conduct a year of purely academic research, write up their results, and seldom or never return to their field site. Even though they ordinarily have done no harm to the people they worked with, the exchanges of these anthropologists with their collaborators might reasonably be regarded as unequal or even exploitative. Many anthropologists, including the contributors to this issue, therefore urge ethnographers to work with their interlocutors on projects aimed at improving the lives of people in their research sites. Some ethnographers regard such collaboration as an ethical obligation; others less prescriptively regard it as a good thing to do in certain circumstances. Certain features of Mesoamerica affect collaborative research in the region. As Little and Rees note in their introduction, Mesoamerica has an extraordinary amount of cultural and historical diversity in a small space. This diversity and the region's contiguity to the U.S. have attracted many ethnographers to the area but the number of anthropologists conducting research in the region is not the only reason why opportunities for participatory ethnography has been so common in Mesoamerica. Development programs run by national and regional governments, international aid organizations, and NGOs are found throughout the region. Since the Mexican revolution in the early 20th century, state organizations in that country have promoted archaeology, crafts, dance, and food. Anthropology has been taught in Mexican universities for many years. As a group, Mexicans are

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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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Publishing Translations

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Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology

Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology

Practical and Ethical Complications of Participatory Research

Japanese ethnographies of the Pacific: Language, politics and perspective

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