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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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 376
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Conduct and Communication
Publication Date:
03 June 2011
ISBN: 9780812205305
Format: eBook
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
"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."