Transforming translations (part 2): Addressing ontological alterity

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 155-187

  Salmond, Amiria J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alterity; Ethnographic translation; Ma ori; Ontology; Relativism; Worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924417345     PISSN: 25751433     EISSN: 20491115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau4.1.006     Document Type: Article

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