Nathaniel Tarn

Biographic Data

ID587776
NAMENathaniel Tarn
GIVEN NAMESNathaniel
FAMILY NAMETarn
SIGNATURETARN N
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6

    Richard N Adams, Ralph L Beals et al.BOOKHandbook of Middle American…2015

  • Methaphors of Relative Elevation, Position and Ranking in Popol Vuh

    Open AccessNathaniel Tarn, Martin PrechtelARTICLEEstudios de Cultura Maya2013Cited by: 1

    This paper is an account of work very much in progress on the textual analysis of Popol Vuh, and is one study among others (since this theme is attracting a number of students today) of inter-connections and mutual illuminations between Popol Vuh and the contemporary ethnographic record in Highland Guatemala and Chiapas. For some considerable time now Popol Vuh has been considered as the major extant text of the Mesoamerican literary traditions, …

  • Scandals in the House of Birds

    Peter O'Leary, Nathaniel TarnARTICLEChicago Review1999

    Nathaniel Tarn. Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlkn. Marsilio, 1997. The full title of Nathaniel Tarn's new book reveals much. Lake Atitlan lies in the central highlands of Guatemala, surrounded by volcanoes and hills. The Maya have been living here for centuries. The shamans in the subtitle are aj'kuna, or medicine men, of the Maya, in charge-among other thingsof the spiritual lives of the people, kept through var…

  • Zapotec Struggles

    Allan F Burns, Allan Burns et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

  • The choral voice

    Open AccessNathaniel TarnARTICLEDialectical Anthropology1986

  • Poems

    Open AccessNathaniel TarnARTICLEDialectical Anthropology1986

  • Fresh Frozen Fenix Random Notes on the Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Ugly in the Postmodern Era

    Nathaniel TarnARTICLENew Literary History1985

    Nathaniel Tarn, Fresh Frozen Fenix Random Notes on the Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Ugly in the Postmodern Era, New Literary History, Vol. 16, No. 2, The Sublime and the Beautiful: Reconsiderations (Winter, 1985), pp. 417-425

  • Archaeology, Elegy, Architecture

    Nathaniel TarnARTICLESubStance1980

    I want to look with you today at the conditions for existence of the poem, especially the lyrical poem, in three of its most important states. First, as POEM, a unit which has a first line, or beginning, and a last line, or end, and appears to enjoy an independent existence in the world of poems among other poems. Second, as this unit, POEM, now considered in its aspect as one member of a chain of poems, also with an apparent beginning and end, t…

  • Brevet

    Michel Deguy, Nathaniel TarnARTICLESubStance1979

  • From Atlantis, an Auto-Anthropology, Volume 1

    Nathaniel TarnARTICLEboundary 21975

  • Three Comings to the House of Leaves

    Nathaniel TarnARTICLEboundary 21975

  • Narrative of the Readings in Chicago

    Nathaniel TarnARTICLEboundary 21975

  • An Interview with Nathaniel Tarn

    Jed Rasula, Mike Erwin et al.ARTICLEboundary 21975

    The literal transcript of the original tape recorded at New Hope, Pa., on September 23, 1973, has been edited by William V. Spanos. In cutting it for purposes of inclusion in boundary 2, the editor has made every effort to preserve the essential content of the interview as well as the explorative impulse of the oral context. Since the interview was not undertaken specifically for inclusion in boundary 2, some of the concerns of the journal, parti…