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Tradução como iniciação

E. Zea

September 6, 2016 DOI: 10.5007/2175-7968.2016v36n3p192 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper
Keywords Linguistics
Key points Argues that translation should be reconceived beyond its textual dimension as a process embedded in ritual, social, and technical exchanges, using the shamanic initiation narrative in The Falling Sky to explore access to otherness, interlocution with it, and transformation across anthropology and translation.

Abstract

In an increasingly noteworthy manner translation appears as a process, device or configuration that is not limited do textual dimension, but inserted in the wider context of ritual, social and technical exchanges. This is a moment of overflowing or expansion of translation, which requires a specific attention. This extratextual proceeding of translation is taken here as a motif to rethink the practice and conceptualization of translation under the figure of shamanic initiation. Specifically, the purpose here is to elaborate articulations in the event of shamanic initiation as narrated in The falling sky (Kopenawa & Albert, 2010, 2013, 2015), emphasizing questions of access to otherness, interlocution with it and the ways of transformation that traverse the double field of anthropology and translation.

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