The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

Dennis Tedlock

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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

Dennis Tedlock

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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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.

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"This book provides the tools for doing the careful and poetic work that refocuses attention on speech. This attention has put Tedlock at the center of the intersection of linguisitics, folklore, and translation. Insights are plentiful." --- "A significant event in the intersection of several circles: Americanists, folklorists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and linguists. . . . A call for acceptance of the spoken natural reality. Skillfully entertaining and deserving to be heard."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Guide to Reading Aloud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
Prologue: When the White Mask Is Worn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Transcription and Translation
1. On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
2. The Girl and the Protector: A Zuni Story 62 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	62
3. Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
4. Translating Ancient Words: From Paleography to the Tape- Recorder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
Poetics
5 The Poetics of Verisimilitude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
6 On Praying, Exclaiming, and Saying Hello in Zuni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	178
7 Phonography and the Problem of Time in Oral Narrative Events Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
8 The Forms of Mayan Verse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
Hermeneutics
9 The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation in American Indian Religion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
10 Beyond Logocentrism: Trace and Voice Among the Quiche' Maya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
11 Creation and the Popol Vuh: A Hermeneutical Approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
12 Word, Name, Epithet, Sign, and Book in Quiche' Epistemology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	272
Toward Dialogue
13 Ethnography as Interaction: The Storyteller, the Audience, the Fieldworker, and the Machine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
14 The Story of How a Story Was Made Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	302
15 Reading the Popol Vuh over the shoulder of a diviner and finding out what's so funny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	312
16 The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Epilogue: When Mountains Shine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357

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January 1, 2011

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9780812205305

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376

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205305

eBook ISBN: 9780812205305

Keywords for this book

Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

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For universities and colleges of further and higher education

The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

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