Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
