Translating Indigenous Knowledges

Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte is Full Professor of Translation at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She has co-edited anthologies, including The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Translation Studies (co-edited with Roberto Valdeón, 2018) and Translation/Power/Subversion (co-edited with Román Álvarez, 1996), and authored 22 books, including Translation and Objects (2024), Translation and Repetition (2023), Translating Borrowed Tongues: The Verbal Quest of Ilan Stavans (2023), and Translation and Contemporary Art: Transdisciplinary Encounters (2022), all published by Routledge.

• Preface, by Karen BennettIntroduction1. Translating knowledges2. Whose knowledge?1. A knowledge of many knowledges1.1 The disdain of the West1.2 Beyond one-world world1.3 From KNOWLEDGE to conocimiento: Gloria Anzaldúa’s proposal1.4 Examples of indigenous knowledges: the teachings of the shaman1.4.1 Don Juan1.4.2 Davi Kopenawa1.5 Indigenous knowledge and the (more than five) senses: the “sensory turn”2. Expanding translation2.1 New approaches to translation2.2 Shamanic translations2.3 Viveiros de Castro’s translations as equivocations2.4 The intercultural translation of Boaventura de Sousa Santos 2.5 Jerome Rothenberg’s total translation3. Translating through the senses: Cecilia Vicuña3.1 Words as living beings3.2 Translating through weaving 3.3 The quipu as an example of inter-epistemic translation4. Towards a sensuous translation4.1 Translating sensuous knowledge, translating knowledge sensuously4.2 Situated knowledges4.3 The right to opacity4.4 Sensuous translation as slow becoming4.5 Sensuous translation as somatic translationality4.6 The wasp and the orchid4.7 New avenues

Translating Indigenous Knowledges highlights non-Western Indigenous epistemology, including emotions, body, and intellect. It facilitates access to research fields receiving scant academic attention, in particular in relation to the reconstruction of non-Western epistemologies and multidimensional conceptualizations of sensuous translation. […] Therefore, this work constitutes an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in the field of translation studies and anthropology.Zheng Zhang (17 Jul 2025): Perspectives, DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2025.2528472