"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms……" — Alan Dundes
"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
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19 Quotes by Alan Dundes
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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but…
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their…
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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
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Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong…
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn…
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to…
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Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.
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The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements,…
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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured.…
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Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of…
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Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water,…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.
— Albert Einstein
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The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery…
— Aleister Crowley
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When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for…
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