màs libros para ti...

Continuing my currently rather aimless research/source-browsing, here are some more sources I've found that might be of interest to you:

Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire, edited by Brian Stanley, is a collection of articles on the history of Christian missions. Of interest is the article by Derek Peterson, "The Rhetoric of the Word: Bible Translation and Mau Mau in Colonial Central Kenya." Peterson argues that the Gikuyu in colonial Kenya used Bible translation as a way to comment on morals associated with political and economic change. This article looks past Bible translation itself (the theories, the goals, etc.) and analyzes a specific language being translated. Not only that--it goes beyond the processes and difficulties involved, and looks beyond at other possible motivations, beside missionary-work, involved. This brings to light a facet of the realm of Bible translation, one that, whether unintended or not, still nonetheless exists--politicizing religion. This article could either be too specific, or could be a jumping off point for more directed research.

Customs and Cultures, by Eugene Nida, is a volume of anthropology for those interested in Christian missions. Nida writes on many topics (race, religion in the world, technology/medicine, cross-cultural social interaction) but of course the most useful is the section on language. Though a somewhat older source, with some now commonly disregarded notions (regarding race, for example) and now frowned upon terms used to describe people ("the heathen"), this book is written in an easy-to-read style that makes for clarity for the lay person. It's chock-full of specific, humorous examples of translations gone bad. Whether or not all of these examples will be of use is another matter, but the mistakes they illustrate could be worth noting.

Some other sources:
Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference by Lawrence Venuti
Translating the Bible: An Unending Task by Keith Crim

--kowai-kawaii