Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

Ethnographers often shift between different languages and cultural contexts. In this process, anthropologists often learn new languages or recalibrate their relationship with ones they already speak. Yet anthropologists typically receive no training in how linguistic translation works, or in the effects of different translation strategies. One small typographical decision—whether to use italics in ethnographic writing for non-English ones, if the ethnography is written in Eng