Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller, Second Edition [Paperback]

Dennis Tedlock (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0803294409 | ISBN-13: 978-0803294400 | Publication Date: December 1, 1999 | Edition: 2

This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface and introduction.

Editorial Reviews

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“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

(Newsweek )

“[An] extraordinarily impressive collection.”—New York Times Book Review

(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

(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

(American Anthropologist )

Language Notes

Text: English (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 337 pages
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; 2 edition (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803294409
• ISBN-13: 978-0803294400
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #895,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Native American Oral Performance, March 28, 2004

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This review is from: Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller, Second Edition (Paperback)

This new group of Zuni stories (many never published before) is a wonderful testament to the author's ability to translate not only Maya literature (i.e. Popol Vuh & Rabinal Achi) but a North American Indian language as well. There was another prize-winning book by the same name that this author published earlier but it had many fewer stories. This is a better much better book!