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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tedlock, Dennis, Author.

Series:

University of Pennsylvania publications in conduct and communication.

Conduct and Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zuni Indians--Folklore.

Zuni Indians.

Quiché Indians--Folklore.

Quiché Indians.

Storytelling--Phonetic transcriptions.

Storytelling.

Translating and interpreting--Folklore.

Translating and interpreting.

Language and languages.

Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786613212320

9781283212328

1283212323

9780812205305

0812205308

OCLC:

44956973