Days from a Dream Almanac

Folklore and Society

by Dennis Tedlock

The poetics of fieldwork is the poetics of being a stranger twice over. Such is the lot of the ethnographer, folklorist, linguist, archaeologist.

93 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Dennis Ernest Tedlock 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.