Translating Past to Present
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Translating Past to Present

Interpreters in the American West and Beyond

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eBook - ePub

Translating Past to Present

Interpreters in the American West and Beyond

About this book

The act of interpretation has been central to Western American history. At every historical juncture, interpreters were active and present—conveying meaning between people speaking mutually unintelligible languages, bartering for goods and power along borders, and translating intentions from gestures, acts, and words. While research on interpreters within zones of cultural exchange has grown among scholars of early modern Europe and Asia, the historiography of interpreters of the American West remains deficient.

Translating Past to Present offers a new perspective on the historical significance of interpretation and translation. This collection explores how the current sparse historiography relates to a lack of transparency about interpretive acts, both in historical and contemporary practices, and calls attention to the subjectivity of interpretive acts and historians’ role in shaping how historical messages are represented. By summoning interpreters from the margins of history, Translating Past to Present spans broad geographies and chronologies to provide a long-overdue examination of the practices of interpretation in the American West.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. A Message and a Dance for Zebulon Pike
  9. Part 1
  10. 1. From Indigenous Interpreters to Creole Control
  11. Misinterpreting for James Wilkinson
  12. 2. Captains of Civility
  13. Maungwudaus Maintains Peace
  14. 3. William Wells . . . Interpreter?
  15. Ma-Son-Ne John Simpson Smith
  16. Part 2
  17. 4. Translating Slavery
  18. Jeffrey Deroine, Freedman and Ioway Interpreter
  19. 5. The Interpreter Generation
  20. Changing Names
  21. 6. Diplomacy in the Aftermath of Pancho Villa’s Raid
  22. John Collier
  23. 7. Interpreters of Diné dóó Gåamalii Oral Histories
  24. Rough Interpretations
  25. Part 3
  26. 8. “Do You Solemnly Swear to Interpret Accurately and Without Bias?”
  27. Dueling Interpretations
  28. 9. Puente, àș‚àș»àș§, Bridge
  29. Interpreting for and in Vietnam
  30. 10. Keeping Faith
  31. Call Me Phillip Morris
  32. Contributors
  33. Index
  34. About Andrew Offenburger
  35. About Patricia Nelson Limerick