Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians
by Dennis Tedlock
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This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface and introduction.Tags
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Dennis Tedlock is Distinguished Professor of English and Anthropology at the State University of New York, Buffalo, where he is also co-director of the Center for the Americas.
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- The first edition of "Finding the Center" is subtitled "Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians". The second edition is subtitled "The Art of the Zuni Storyteller". These are two editions of the same work with differences being ... (show all)in typology to better represent oral performances on paper, the fine-tuning of translation, and the addition of two stories.
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry
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- 897.4 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of North American native languages Penutian, Mayan, Ut-Aztecan, Tanoan languages
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- PM2711 .Z95 .E5 — Language and Literature Hyperborean, Native American, and artificial languages Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages Indian languages Special languages of the United States and Canada
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