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is, for anything worth reading, of no real value except as a crib to the original. As such, translations for the general reader ought to be as literal as possible.

of any real value except as a crib to the original, and so translations for the general reader ought to be as literal as possible.

is a fragile condition, admitting of no verification other than a new translation and thus requiring a kind of 'linguistic hospitality'.

Despite the conflictual character which renders the task of the translator dramatic, he or she will find satisfaction in what I would like to call linguistic hospitality. Its predicament is that of a correspondence without complete adhesion. This is a fragile condition, which admits of no verification other than a new translation . . . a sort of duplication of the work of the translator which is possible in virtue of a minimum of bilingualism: to translate afresh after the translator. (Kearney in Riceouer 2006 :xvi')

is a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

is a process whereby weaker third world nations are more likely to submit to forcible translation distortions than the other way around.

in focusing on how linguistic distortions influence the apprehension of the social world, these studies have bracketed how social interaction, and thus social power, determines linguistic distortion (commensurability, and incommensurability). And it is exactly the issue of power that has interested anthropologist studying radical and subaltern worlds. Talal Asad noted some time ago that insofar as 'the languages of the Third World societies. . .are 'weaker' in relation to Western languages (and today, especially to English), they are more likely to submit to forcible transformation in the translation process than the other way around' (Asad 1986, pp. 157-58... see also Chakrabarty 2000, Trouillot 2000). (povinelli 2001 : 324)

is a task not in the sense of a restricting obligation, but in the sense that it is a thing to be done so that human action can simply continue.

Translation is definitely a task, then, not in the sense of a restricting obligation, but in the sense of the thing to be done so that human action can simply continue, to speak like Benjamin's friend Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition. (19)

is a task that requires an interpretation of a whole organization of activity, not just the matching of vocabulary.

translation adequate to comparative analysis requires an interpretation of a whole organization of activity, not just the matching of vocabulary'

is always serving two masters, the foreigner in his strangeness and the reader in his desire for appropriation. Reader.

Franz Rosenzweig, whom our colleague Hans-Christoph took as 'a witness to the problem of translation' (this is how I venture to translate the title of his great Tu bingen book), gave this test the form of a paradox: to translate, he says, is to serve two masters, the foreigner in his strangeness, the reader in his desire for appropriation. (Ricoeur 2006: 22-3)

is an attempt to render the foreign familiar and preserve its very foreignness at one and the same time.

like Benjamin's translator, 'He must render the foreign familiar and preserve its very foreignness at one and the same time. The translator accomplishes this through style, the ethnographer through the coupling of a presentation othat asserts the foreign and an interpretation that makes it all familiar' (Crapanzano 'Hermes' Dilemma' 1986:52).

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