Academic Quote by Alan Dundes

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

— 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

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

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

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 father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them,…

— Max von Sydow

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

— Margaret Halsey

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it…

— Brian Froud

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for…

— Jez Butterworth

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

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

— Alan Dundes

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