TEDLOCK, BARBARA AND DENNIS

Barbara Tedlock is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, a researcher among Guatemalan Maya, and the author of articles and books about shamans, especiallywomenshamans. Dennis Tedlock is professor of English and anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and a linguist, poet, and translator of Mayan literature (thePopolVuh[1996] andRabinal Achi[2003]). The Tedlocks have both trained and been initiated by Mayan shamans and written reflexively about that process and its implications.