Faculty
Dennis Tedlock
Distinguished Professor, McNulty Chair in the Poetics Program, Research Professor of Anthropology
Office: 540 Clemens
Phone number: 645-3422
E-mail address: dtedlock@buffalo.edu
Interests:
My research interests center on the indigenous languages, verbal arts, writing systems, and religions of the Western Hemisphere. I’ve done field research among the Koasati of Louisiana, the Zuni of New Mexico, the indigenous Hawaiians of Kaua‛i, the Mopán Maya of Belize, and the K’iche’ Maya of Guatemala.
Courses taught:
Books of the Ancient Mayas, Mythography, Ethnopoetics, Poetics of the Americas
Work in progress:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature
Selected publications:
- Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya
- Days from a Dream Almanac
- Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller
- Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life
- Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice
- Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy (with Barbara Tedlock)
- The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
