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pervivencias susceptibles de entroncar con

English translation: possible vestiges of an unsullied autochthonous cultural substrate

13:42 Apr 7, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Anthropology / Text from Canary Islands
Spanish term or phrase: pervivencias susceptibles de entroncar con
El aislamiento exterior en el que se instalan estas poblaciones hasta la “invención” de Canarias por parte de los navegantes europeos del siglo XIV puede inducir a pensar que aquellos primeros exploradores llegados de Europa encuentran en las islas un relicto, milagrosamente preservado, de aquellos amaziges protohistóricos sin contacto alguno con el Islam.
Sin descartar la existencia de ******pervivencias susceptibles de entroncar con los sustratos culturales prístinos, eso supone infravalorar todas las dinámicas de cambio cultural endógeno que,

Having trouble with this part of the sentence. Any help would be much appreciated.
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 07:23
English translation:possible vestiges of an unsullied autochthonous cultural substrate
Explanation:
What the writer seems to saying is this:
Even though it was by no means outlandish to believe that some remnant of the islands' ancient culture may have still survived by the fourteenth century, the view that they were the unsullied repository of a pre-Islamic autochthonous culture disregarded the evolution that might have occurred within said culture.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2017-04-07 17:16:42 GMT)
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Or, in the interest of fully capturing "entroncar":

possible vestiges that can be traced back to an unsullied autochthonous cultural substrate
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Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 02:23
Grading comment
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2 +2possible vestiges of an unsullied autochthonous cultural substrate
Robert Forstag


  

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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
pervivencias susceptibles de entroncar con los sustratos culturales prístinos
possible vestiges of an unsullied autochthonous cultural substrate


Explanation:
What the writer seems to saying is this:
Even though it was by no means outlandish to believe that some remnant of the islands' ancient culture may have still survived by the fourteenth century, the view that they were the unsullied repository of a pre-Islamic autochthonous culture disregarded the evolution that might have occurred within said culture.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2017-04-07 17:16:42 GMT)
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Or, in the interest of fully capturing "entroncar":

possible vestiges that can be traced back to an unsullied autochthonous cultural substrate

Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 02:23
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Very nice! Why only 2-level certainty?
5 hrs
agree  Thomas Walker: I agree with Muriel - true to the ST, but quite well expressed in English. I'm not an anthropologist, but it sounds like genuine anthropology-speak to me.
2 days 7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Tom.
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