Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.
Among the larger primates such functions are carried out through the much studied practice of grooming. Grooming bonds mother and child, it bonds males in hierarchical rank (the “pecking order”), it establishes bonds between males and ...
This book ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are.
Surprising, witty and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about us, and how we understand each other.
Surprising, witty and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about us, and how we understand each other.