Translating Indigenous Knowledges: Toward a Sensuous Translation [Hardcover]

In this book, Vidal presents a new way of translating indigenous epistemologies. For centuries, the Western world has ordained what knowledge is, what it should be and has also been responsible for transmitting that knowledge. This universal knowledge has traveled to the four corners of the globe,

Preface, by Karen Bennett

 

Introduction

 

1. Translating knowledges

2. Whose knowledge?

 

 

1. A knowledge of many knowledges

 

1.1 The disdain of the West

1.2 Beyond one-world world

1.3    From KNOWLEDGE to conocimiento: Gloria Anzald?as proposal

1.4  Examples of indigenous knowledges: the teachings of the shaman

1.4.1 Don Juan

1.4.2 Davi Kopenawa

1.5 Indigenous knowledge and the (more than five) senses: the sensory turn

 

 

2. Expanding translation

 

2.1 New approaches to translation

2.2 Shamanic translations

2.3 Viveiros de Castros translations as equivocations

2.4 The intercultural translation of Boaventura de Sousa Santos

2.5 Jerome Rothenbergs total translation

 

 

3. Translating through the senses: Cecilia Vicu?a

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