Tedlock, Barbara and Dennis

Tedlock, Barbara and Dennis
   Barbara Tedlock is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, a researcher among Guatemalan Maya, and the author of articles and books about shamans, especially women shamans. Dennis Tedlock is professor of English and anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and a linguist, poet, and translator of Mayan literature (the Popol Vuh [1996] and Rabinal Achi [2003]). The Tedlocks have both trained and been initiated by Mayan shamans and written reflexively about that process and its implications.

Historical dictionary of shamanism. . 2007.

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