The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (381 pages)
- Conduct and Communication Series .
- Conduct and Communication Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Guide to Reading Aloud -- Prologue: When the White Mask Is Worn -- Part One: Transcription and Translation -- Chapter 1. On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative -- Chapter 2. The Girl and the Protector: A Zuni Story -- Chapter 3. Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry -- Chapter 4. Translating Ancient Words: From Paleography to the Tape-Recorder -- Part Two: Poetics -- Chapter 5. The Poetics of Verisimilitude -- Chapter 6. On Praying, Exclaiming, and Saying Hello in Zuni -- Chapter 7. Phonography and the Problem of Time in Oral Narrative Events -- Chapter 8. The Forms of Mayan Verse -- Part Three: Hermeneutics -- Chapter 9. The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation in American Indian Religion -- Chapter 10. Beyond Logocentrism: Trace and Voice Among the Quiché Maya -- Chapter 11. Creation and the Popol Vuh: A Hermeneutical Approach -- Chapter 12. Word, Name, Epithet, Sign, and Book in Quiche' Epistemology -- Part Four: Toward Dialogue -- Chapter 13. Ethnography as Interaction: The Storyteller, the Audience, the Fieldworker, and the Machine -- Chapter 14. The Story of How a Story Was Made -- Chapter 15. Reading the Popol Vuh over the shoulder of a diviner and finding out what's so funny -- Chapter 16. The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology -- Epilogue: When Mountains Shine -- Bibliography -- Index.
Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts.
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Zuni Indians-Folklore. Quiché Indians-Folklore. Storytelling. Translating and interpreting. Language and languages-Phonetic transcriptions. Indians-Folklore.