Tedlock, Barbara

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Zuni sacred theater
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Summary: Barbara Helen Tedlock was an American cultural anthropologist and oneirologist. She was a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her work explores cross-cultural understanding and communication of dreams, ethnomedicine, and aesthetics and focuses on the indigenous Zuni of the Southwestern United States and the Kʼicheʼ Maya of Mesoamerica. Through her study and practice of the healing traditions of the Kʼicheʼ Maya of Guatemala, Tedlock became initiated into shamanism. She was the collaborator and wife of the late anthropologist and poet Dennis Tedlock. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Female [1][4][5]; Unknown [2]
Born: 1942-09-09 [5]
Birth Place: Battle Creek [5]
Died: 2023-09-11 [5]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [5]
Profession: Anthropologin [2]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Danish Bibliographic Centre; 5. Wikidata

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