Anthropology Quote by Alan Dundes

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

— Alan Dundes

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

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

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

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

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be…

— Robin McKinley

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

— Dan Ben-Amos

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously…

— Tim Schafer

“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and…

— Jack Zipes

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins…

— Mark Waid

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