In linguistics, folkloristics and anthropology, a method of
analyzing linguistic structures in oral literature. The term was
coined in 1968 by Jerome Rothenberg , whose anthology
Technicians of the Sacred is considered a definitive text of the
movement. In poetry, ethnopoetics refers to non-Western, non-
canonical poetries, often those coming from ancient and
autochthonous cultures. In the early 20th century, Modernist and
avant-garde poets such as Antonin Artaud and Tristan Tzara used
“primitive” or oral traditions in their work; by midcentury, a
curiosity regarding world literature had coalesced into a
movement led by Rothenberg and Dennis Tedlock, who together
edited the journal Alcheringa from 1970 to 1980. Contemporary
poets with an interest in ethnopoetics include Gary Snyder ,
Kathleen Stewart, and William Bright.