1. Ethnopoetics an example Coined in 1968
Jerome Rothenberg wrote “Technicians of the Sacred”
Non-Western poetry
Poetry from indigenous or ancient cultures
Use of primitive or oral traditions in poetry
an example

2. Jerome
Rothenberg
born 1931

3. Dennis
Tedlock
born 1939
Teaches English and Anthropology at State University of New York, Buffalo
Has written a lot about Mayan literature
“The emphasis has been on performances in which the speaking, chanting, or singing voice gives shape to proverbs, riddles, curses, laments, praises, prayers, prophecies, public announcements, and narratives.”

4. Kathleen
Stewart
Professor of anthropology at University of Texas, Austin
“All the world’s a poem and poems are in every sense real, etching lines of action and mood across the sensations, vibrations, movements, and intensities that comprise both experience and states of matter. But poems have to be achieved; they’re compositions at work in the everyday.”

5. William Bright 1928-2006 Linguist Anthropologist
Studied Native American and South Asian languages
Expert in California Native Languages

6. Stanley Diamond
( )
Poet
Anthropologist

7. George Quasha born 1942