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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation / Dennis Tedlock.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Conduct and CommunicationPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) : 8 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812211436
  • 9780812205305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2/08997
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Guide to Reading Aloud -- Prologue: When the White Mask Is Worn -- 1. On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative -- 2. The Girl and the Protector: A Zuni Story 62 -- 3. Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry -- 4. Translating Ancient Words: From Paleography to the Tape- Recorder -- 5 The Poetics of Verisimilitude -- 6 On Praying, Exclaiming, and Saying Hello in Zuni -- 7 Phonography and the Problem of Time in Oral Narrative Events -- 8 The Forms of Mayan Verse -- 9 The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation in American Indian Religion -- 10 Beyond Logocentrism: Trace and Voice Among the Quiche' Maya -- 11 Creation and the Popol Vuh: A Hermeneutical Approach -- 12 Word, Name, Epithet, Sign, and Book in Quiche' Epistemology -- 13 Ethnography as Interaction: The Storyteller, the Audience, the Fieldworker, and the Machine -- 14 The Story of How a Story Was Made -- 15 Reading the Popol Vuh over the shoulder of a diviner and finding out what's so funny -- 16 The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology -- Epilogue: When Mountains Shine -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Guide to Reading Aloud -- Prologue: When the White Mask Is Worn -- 1. On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative -- 2. The Girl and the Protector: A Zuni Story 62 -- 3. Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry -- 4. Translating Ancient Words: From Paleography to the Tape- Recorder -- 5 The Poetics of Verisimilitude -- 6 On Praying, Exclaiming, and Saying Hello in Zuni -- 7 Phonography and the Problem of Time in Oral Narrative Events -- 8 The Forms of Mayan Verse -- 9 The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation in American Indian Religion -- 10 Beyond Logocentrism: Trace and Voice Among the Quiche' Maya -- 11 Creation and the Popol Vuh: A Hermeneutical Approach -- 12 Word, Name, Epithet, Sign, and Book in Quiche' Epistemology -- 13 Ethnography as Interaction: The Storyteller, the Audience, the Fieldworker, and the Machine -- 14 The Story of How a Story Was Made -- 15 Reading the Popol Vuh over the shoulder of a diviner and finding out what's so funny -- 16 The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology -- Epilogue: When Mountains Shine -- Bibliography -- Index

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Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)