Versions of the Traditional: A Journal of Translations From Indigenous Cultures

Touchstone Center Publications, 1989

A collection of translations by outstanding poets, anthropologists, and story-tellers, who participated in the Center’s long-term series at the American Museum of Natural History, rendering the mythic and poetic material of indigenous cultures throughout the world. Included are translations from, amongst others, the Aztec, Nuer, Egyptian, Navajo, and Andamanese, by Joseph Bruchac, John Bierhorst, Steven Lonsdale, Terese Svoboda, Judith Gleason, Dennis Tedlock, David Cloutier, David McAllister, David Guss, Diane Wolkstein and W.S. Merwin.

31 pages • paperbound • $6.00 • Order Form