Translating worlds, translating hearts
An anthropological text analysis of two autobiographies on American-Yanomami
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5128425 |
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| Authors | Vanessa Pastorini (0000-0002-9602-3367, Instituto Butantan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2366-1003 • E-ISSN: 2366-1003 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s41257-025-00141-x |
| OpenAlex | W4414772082 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
To what extent do foreign actors impact local communities? Specifically, how do cultural translations between two fundamentally opposed worlds-the Yanomami universe and the U.S. Western universe-manifest and reveal different regimes of meaning? This article analyzes cultural translation as a meaning-making process, highlighting interlocutors' efforts to establish a mutually intelligible and satisfactory communicative bridge. Methodologically, the author triangulates Lotman's semiosphere boundaries with Landowski's interaction regimes, mapping: (1) asymmetric programming; (2) adjustment via embodied practices; (3) indigenous critiques. Texts were coded for: (a) lexical gaps; (b) affective semiosis; (c) power markers. The findings reveal how translation enacts Asad's 'epistemological violence' when Western categories overwrite indigenous lifeworlds. However, when translation is approached as a dynamic act of meaning production-rooted in affectivity and guided by the semiotic framework of adjustment-it offers new possibilities for engaging with otherness in more equitable and meaningful ways
Embodied cognition · Indigenous · Semiotics · Translation studies · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
| Highly cited | No |
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