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1. Introduction 2. Translation as metaphor, translation as practice  The translation of culture     Culture as translation     Translation without language difference?  3. The translatability of cultures Translatability, untranslatability and relativism  Alterity and familiarity in ethnographic translations 4. Historical perspectives     Colonialism and the rise of British anthropology  Translation practices in 'classical' ethnography  E.E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer   5. Critical innovations in ethnography Confession and the translator's preface    Dialogical ethnography     Quotation       Thick translation       Ethnography at home     Ruth Behar's Translated Woman    6. Ethnographic translations of verbal art Early twentieth-century collectors    The performance dimension    The use of layers      Retranslation      Translating into target-language canons  7. Museum representations The museum as translation    Shifting contexts      Ideologies of arrangement: the Pitt Rivers Museum Faithfulness and authenticity    Verbal interpretation in the museum   Museums as contact zones   8. Ethical Perspectives Ownership and authority     Dialogue and difference     9. Conclusion