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untranslatable
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His chapter on religious life outlines in fascinating detail the survival and adaptation of native beliefs and practices, the untranslatability of many Christian concepts into native language and belief systems, and the Mixtecs' ambivalent acceptance of the "God from Castile.
The ghosts also symbolize the untranslatability within and between culture.
The author of such essays as "The Congo is Flooding the Acropolis: Black Art and Orders of Difference" (1991) and "Perfidious Fidelity: The Untranslatability of the Other" (1994), Maharaj has recently left the semi-obscure confines of advanced critical theory to join the group of curators assisting Okwui Enwezor in preparing and staging Documenta11, which opens in Kassel this June.
 
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