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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Alan Dundes Alan Dundes with a wooden Norwegian statue of a tale called "Squeezing the Stone" Alan Dundes (September 8, 1934 – March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline.[citation needed] He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more. One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing... Read full biography of Alan Dundes → 1 2 Ctrl → Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. 0 If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork... → 0 Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 0 The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore... → 0 They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based... → 0 My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. 0 Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with... → 0 Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations. 0 Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not... → 0 Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new... → 0 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... → 0 Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage... → 0 In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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