Making sense of one other for another: Ethnography as translation

Language and Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-47

  Agar, Michael ^a  

^a Ethknoworks   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropological theory; Emic etic; Ethnography; Multiagent computer models; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952037528     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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