Dennis Tedlock

Nationality

American

Description

Dennis Ernest Tedlock (19 June 1939 – 3 June 2016) was the McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Tulane University. In 1986, he won the
PEN Translation Prize for his book Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, and in 1997 was the joint recipient of the American Anthropological Association President's Award, along with his wife, Barbara Tedlock.He was a proponent of dialogical anthropology.

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Gender

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The best books of all time by Dennis Tedlock

  1. . Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life by Dennis Tedlock

    Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation is not only the most important text in the native language of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins wit...

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