The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

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ISBN: 9780812211436 | 081221143X
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Copyright: 6/1/1983

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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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The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation	p. ii
Guide to Reading Aloud	p. 20
Prologue: When the White Mask Is Worn	p. 23
Transcription and Translation	p. 29
On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative	p. 31
The Girl and the Protector: A Zuni Story	p. 62
Learning to Listen: Oral History as Poetry	p. 107
Translating Ancient Words: From Paleography to the Tape-Recorder	p. 124
Poetics	p. 157
The Poetics of Verisimilitude	p. 159
On Praying, Exclaiming, and Saying Hello in Zuni	p. 178
Phonography and the Problem of Time in Oral Narrative Events	p. 194
The Forms of Mayan Verse	p. 216
Hermeneutics	p. 231
The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation in American Indian Religion	p. 233
Beyond Logocentrism: Trace and Voice Among the Quiché Maya	p. 247
Creation and the Popol Vuh: A Hermeneutical Approach	p. 261
Word, Name, Epithet, Sign, and Book in Quiché Epistemology	p. 272
Toward Dialogue	p. 283
Ethnography as Interaction: The Storyteller, the Audience, the Fieldworker, and the Machine	p. 285
The Story of How a Story Was Made	p. 302
Reading the Popol Vuh over the shoulder of a diviner and finding out what's so funny	p. 312
The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology	p. 321
Epilogue: When Mountains Shine	p. 339
Index	p. 357
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