Tedlock’s book introduces into folklore an attempt to create a verbal notation of the speech dynamics of the original narrators…The realization comes over one with a shock that our infatuation with story has, for all these years, obliterated all but the most rudimentary considerations of style. - American Anthropologist. This second edition features three new Zuni stories, updated transcriptions of stories from the original edition, a bibliography, and a new preface and introduction. Dennis Tedlock is James H. McNulty Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya.