Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Neuansatz
English translation:
new approach
Added to glossary by
David Williams
Mar 13, 2009 14:56
15 yrs ago
1 viewer *
German term
Germany
Scientific & technical expertise
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English
Neuansatz
German to English
Science
Archaeology
Context:
"Wegweisend ist die soziologische Herangehensweise, mit der sie geradezu einen Neuansatz der Ägyptologie bewirkte..."
Both Herangehensweise and Neuansatz seem to be crying out to be translated as "approach", but of course that doesn't work in English:
This sociological approach, with which she literally brought about a new approach, is pioneering...
Would "revolution" (or "minor revolution") be too strong for Neuansatz?
"Wegweisend ist die soziologische Herangehensweise, mit der sie geradezu einen Neuansatz der Ägyptologie bewirkte..."
Both Herangehensweise and Neuansatz seem to be crying out to be translated as "approach", but of course that doesn't work in English:
This sociological approach, with which she literally brought about a new approach, is pioneering...
Would "revolution" (or "minor revolution") be too strong for Neuansatz?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | new approach |
Helen Shiner
|
| 4 | new methodology |
ArchyR
|
Proposed translations
+1
5 mins
Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Arts/Academic translator - Art historian
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
:
27
Selected
new approach
You could combine this with 'methodology' perhaps for your first term...
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 12 mins (2009-03-13 15:09:49 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
I think revolution is far too strong and too wide in its effects. If it were the case, I would have expected the German to reflect it.
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 12 mins (2009-03-13 15:09:49 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
I think revolution is far too strong and too wide in its effects. If it were the case, I would have expected the German to reflect it.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks!"
9 hrs
new methodology
This paragraph in Juan Jose Castillos' paper on Predynastic Egypt is useful here:
"As archaeology and egyptology become more multidisciplinarian, with all the advantages such [an] approach implies, it would be unwise to ignore the advances in modern sociological research in order to refine our perception of the social structure and the degree of inequality in early Egyptian communities. Very limited attempts in this direction have been made, although I have applied this methodology to a large data base of over 8,000 Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic tombs, using the variables that involved aspects of these funerary practices that could yield enough information to make the results significant." He is a respected Egyptologist from Argentina.
It would have bene helpful if you would have revealed who "she" is.
"As archaeology and egyptology become more multidisciplinarian, with all the advantages such [an] approach implies, it would be unwise to ignore the advances in modern sociological research in order to refine our perception of the social structure and the degree of inequality in early Egyptian communities. Very limited attempts in this direction have been made, although I have applied this methodology to a large data base of over 8,000 Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic tombs, using the variables that involved aspects of these funerary practices that could yield enough information to make the results significant." He is a respected Egyptologist from Argentina.
It would have bene helpful if you would have revealed who "she" is.
Discussion