Days from a Dream

by Dennis Tedlock

Book Overview

The poetics of fieldwork is the poetics of being a stranger twice over. Such is the lot of the ethnographer, folklorist, linguist, archaeologist. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206092X
• ISBN13: 9780252060922
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Poetics of Fieldwork

This group of poems each with its own visual icon is a powerful evocation of the author's fieldwork among the Maya in Guatemala. It is a must read for those interested in the Maya and /or new ethnographic writing. Together with his book of short narratives, "Breath on the Mirror," it reveals a dedicated and artistic fieldworker/artist/poet. He is also the translator of the Mayan Bible: "The Popol Vuh" and the just released "Rabinal Achi," a pre-Columbian Mayan play of war and sacrifice.