Discussion Quote by Alan Dundes

When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want…

— Madonna Ciccone

“All political discussion is forbidden,” he snapped. “What price our free citizenship now?” said one of the boys to me as the group broke…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

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

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually…

— Alan Dundes

My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am…

— Alan Dundes

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of…

— Alan Dundes

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving…

— Alan Dundes

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

— Alan Dundes

As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if…

— 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…

— Alan Dundes

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

— Alan Dundes

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

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

— Alan Dundes

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

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something…

— Alan Dundes