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Finding the Center, Finding the Center, 0803244398, 0-8032-4439-8, 978-0-8032-4439-9, 9780803244399, Translated by Dennis Tedlock
From live performances in Zuni by Andrew Peynetsa and Walter Sanchez, , Finding the Center, 0803294409, 0-8032-9440-9, 978-0-8032-9440-0, 9780803294400, Translated by Dennis Tedlock
From live performances in Zuni by Andrew Peynetsa and Walter Sanchez
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Finding the Center
Translated by Dennis Tedlock
From live performances in Zuni by Andrew Peynetsa and Walter Sanchez
hardcover
1999.
337 pp.
Illus., maps
978-0-8032-4439-9
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paperback
1999.
337 pp.
Illus., maps
978-0-8032-9440-0
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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.
Dennis Tedlock is James H. McNulty Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya.
 “A brilliant gathering of Zuni narrative poetry . . . Tedlock’s Zuni narrators seem like singers of some pueblo Beowulf, orchestrating oral traditions with voices they use like instruments.”—Newsweek “Splendid translations . . . Tedlock has represented pauses in the Zuni with line and strophe breaks, and degrees of pitch and intensity with a handful of standard typographic devices. The text that results is one that we recognize, of course, as poetry scored for voicing; but we also recognize—and this is the kingpin—that an oral tradition has emerged in its own proper character.”—The Nation “[An] extraordinarily impressive collection.”—New York Times Book Review “A genuine artistic breakthrough . . . Recapture[s] for us not only the communal spirit of the stories but also . . . at least some feeling of what it’s like to be a Zuni, something anthropological monographs can’t seem to tell us. . . . I know of no other retellings of traditional tales that move me to delight as these do.”—Harper’s Magazine Tedlock’s book introduces into folklore an attempt to create a verbal notation of the speech dynamics of the original narrators. . . . The realization comes over one with a shock that our infatuation with story has, for all these years, obliterated all but the most rudimentary considerations of style.”—American Anthropologist
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