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1	Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist This is a translation of one of the most important texts in the native languages of the Americas, "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life". This edition features with newly deciphered hieroglyphics that show the deep roots of the "Popol Vuh" in Mayan culture. see all copies from $3.29! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Teachings from the American earth : Indian religion and philosophy more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's "Career of the Medicine Man". The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist This study offers a glimpse into the magical and colourful world of the Maya. Unlike the usual academic renditions of primal myths, this book's presentation of the Maya's most important stories echoes the same creative way they are told today in the mountains, fields and town plazas of Central America. Dennis Trulock is the translator of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions
4	Popol Vuh more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist see all copies from $3.62! new only from $20.87! \| SVS
6	Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians more books like this by Dennis Tedlock (Translator) add to wishlist "A brilliant gathering of Zuni narrative poetry collected by anthropologist Dennis Tedlock in New Mexico...Tedlock's Zuni narrators seem like singers of some pueblo Beowulf, orchestrating oral traditions with voices they use like instruments, and whose inflections Tedlock captures in differing type faces." - "Newsweek." "Dennis Tedlock's splendid ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $50.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Games of the North American Indians, Volume Two: Games of Skill more books like this by Stewart Culin, Dennis Tedlock (Introduction by) add to wishlist 'When it comes to sports and games that are deeply rooted in this very continent, by which I mean games that were played here well before a certain European mariner tried to sail the wrong way around to India, there is no source as broad and rich as this one' - Dennis Tedlock. Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, ... see all copies from $7.18! new only from $7.63! \| SVS
8	Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh. The first direct translation into English from Quiche Maya, based on the original text, Rabinal Achi is the story of city-states, war ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $6.32! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller, Second Edition more books like this by Dennis Tedlock (Translator) add to wishlist '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". This second edition ... see all copies from $4.63! new only from $32.12! \| SVS
10	Games of the North American Indians, Volume 1: Games of Chance more books like this by Stewart Culin, Dennis Tedlock (Introduction by) add to wishlist 'When it comes to sports and games that are deeply rooted in this very continent, by which I mean games that were played here well before a certain European mariner tried to sail the wrong way around to India, there is no source as broad and rich as this one' - Dennis Tedlock. Volume 1 of this "Bison Books" edition takes up games of chance, ... see all copies from $4.09! new only from $31.18! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Dialogic Emergence of Culture more books like this by Dennis Tedlock (Editor), Bruce Mannheim (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $17.00! new only from $22.62!
12 view cover	Teachings from the American Faith: Indian Religion and Philosophy more books like this by Dennis Tedlock (Editor), Barbara Tedlock (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.51!
13 view cover	Days from a Dream Almanac more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist The poetics of fieldwork is the poetics of being a stranger twice over. Such is the lot of the ethnographer, folklorist, linguist, archaeologist. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	Teachings from the American Earth: Perspectives on the Religion, Philosophy, and Spirituality of the American Indian more books like this by Barbara Tedlock (Editor), Dennis Tedlock (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00!

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