Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: translation

Examines The Indian Vocabulary (1788) produced in Britain for colonial civil servants in order to discern the ambiguous relationship toward India and British efforts to define itself in relation to its colony therein.

From Nabob to Saheb: Reflections of British Rule in The Indian Vocabulary

Visual and auditory metaphors shape the historiography of encounter, including research on translators in nineteenth-century Alaska.

Metaphors and the Historiography of Encounter

Using the example of Max Vasmer's biography, the authors argue that "Slavic Studies in general and in German-speaking countries in particular can and should be studied from the perspective of migrant knowledge."

Slavic Studies as Migrant Knowledge: The Case of Max Vasmer

Vladislava Maria Warditz
Wim Coudenys

The "Qur'an school problem" in West Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s was in many ways a product of the migrant experts who bemoaned it, the teachers on loan from Turkey.

Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany

Germans translated Buddhist texts in Germany, and they migrated to British Ceylon in order to get closer to Buddhism. Their Buddhist practices ended up changing Buddhism's relationship to texts in their South Asian home.

German Migrants and the Circulation of Buddhist Knowledge between Germany and British Ceylon

Sebastian Musch