Dennis Tedlock

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Dennis Tedlock is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dennis Tedlock has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Language and Linguistics, 5 papers in Linguistics and Language and 4 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Dennis Tedlock's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (4 papers), Translation Studies and Practices (3 papers) and Latin American history and culture (2 papers). Dennis Tedlock is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (4 papers), Translation Studies and Practices (3 papers) and Latin American history and culture (2 papers). Dennis Tedlock collaborates with scholars based in United States. Dennis Tedlock's co-authors include Gordon Brotherston, Barbara Tedlock, Barbara A. Babcock, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Sullivan, Bruce Mannheim, Dell Hymes, Arnold Krupat, Barre Toelken and Robert Albro and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology and Anthropological Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Dennis Tedlock

36 papers receiving 728 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation

1983 423 citations Dennis Tedlock University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dennis Tedlock United States	15	265	220	205	200	196	42	1.1k
William F. Hanks United States	19	259 1.0×	338 1.5×	180 0.9×	262 1.3×	693 3.5×	42	1.6k
Fred Myers United States	18	523 2.0×	59 0.3×	110 0.5×	413 2.1×	61 0.3×	65	1.5k
Bruce Mannheim United States	12	123 0.5×	59 0.3×	66 0.3×	101 0.5×	210 1.1×	30	625
Roger D. Abrahams United States	20	274 1.0×	400 1.8×	39 0.2×	466 2.3×	250 1.3×	106	1.6k
Gerald Vizenor United States	13	212 0.8×	278 1.3×	67 0.3×	447 2.2×	36 0.2×	70	1.4k
Greg Urban United States	11	278 1.0×	427 1.9×	37 0.2×	374 1.9×	580 3.0×	24	1.6k
William Bascom United States	15	254 1.0×	179 0.8×	26 0.1×	338 1.7×	62 0.3×	56	1.1k
Karin Barber United Kingdom	20	802 3.0×	427 1.9×	96 0.5×	785 3.9×	72 0.4×	63	1.7k
Norman E. Whitten United States	20	415 1.6×	46 0.2×	57 0.3×	407 2.0×	52 0.3×	72	1.2k
Daniel J. Crowley United States	13	279 1.1×	87 0.4×	41 0.2×	274 1.4×	32 0.2×	80	860

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dennis Tedlock

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All Works

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Tedlock, Dennis. (2010). 2000 Years of Mayan Literature. Internet Archive (Internet Archive). 8 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (2006). Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics. American Anthropologist. 108(1). 246–247. 3 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (2003). Rabinal Achi. 17 indexed citations

4.

Tedlock, Dennis. (2002). How to Drink Chocolate from a Skull at a Wedding Banquet. Res Anthropology and Aesthetics. 42. 166–179. 8 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1999). Poetry and Ethnography: A Dialogical Approach. Anthropology & Humanism. 24(2). 155–167. 4 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1999). Finding the center : the art of the Zuni storyteller. University of Nebraska Press eBooks. 12 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1992). Myth, math, and the problem of correlation in Mayan books.. 247–273. 2 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1989). Days from a dream almanac. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1986). Popol vuh : the Mayan book of the dawn of life. 96 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1986). A tradição analógica e o surgimento de uma antropologia dialógica. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 10(1). 183–202. 1 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1986). The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Research. 42(3). 483–496. 4 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1985). Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 150 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Barbara & Dennis Tedlock. (1985). Text and Textile: Language and Technology in the Arts of the Quiché Maya. Journal of Anthropological Research. 41(2). 121–146. 27 indexed citations

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Babcock, Barbara A. & Dennis Tedlock. (1985). The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Journal of American Folklore. 98(388). 223–223. 5 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1983). The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1979). The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Research. 35(4). 387–400. 47 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1979). Beyond Logocentrism: Trace and Voice among the Quiche Maya. boundary 2. 8(1). 321–321. 3 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1977). Toward an Oral Poetics. New Literary History. 8(3). 507–507. 35 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis & Jerome Rothenberg. (1976). A first international symposium. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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Tedlock, Dennis. (1972). Ethnology: The Pueblo Indians of North America. EDWARD P. DOZIER. American Anthropologist. 74(1-2). 32–33. 1 indexed citations

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