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This book has emerged from an international collaborative research project that ran from 2012 to 2015, bringing together scholars from the UK and Ireland, as well as Austria, France, India, Italy, Jordan, Poland, Spain, and the USA. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s theme ‘Translating Cultures’, the theme itself provided our overarching research problem. What does it mean to translate cultures?
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Blumczynski, P., Gillespie, J. (2016). Introduction. In: Blumczynski, P., Gillespie, J. (eds) Translating Values. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54971-6_1
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