Experiencing Translationality

<p>This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.</p><p>To gain a fresh perspective on the work of translation in the complex processes of meaning-making across physical social and cultural domains (conceptualized as translationality) Piotr Blumczynski revisits one of the earliest and most fundamental senses of translation: corporeal transfer. His study of translated religious officials and translated relics reframes our understanding of translation as a process creating a sense of connection with another time place object or person. He argues that a promise of translationality animates a broad spectrum of cultural artistic and commercial endeavours: it is invoked for example in museum exhibitions art galleries celebrity endorsements and the manufacturing of musical instruments. Translationality offers a way to reimagine the dynamic entanglements of matter and meaning space and time past and present.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies as well as related disciplines such as the history of religion anthropology of art and material culture.</p>