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Alan Dundes
American
Educator
Born:
Sep 8
,
1934
Died:
Mar 30
,
2005
American
Believe
Folklore
Future
Past
Try
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes
You
People
Speak
Light
Some People
Faster
Some
Until
Sound
Hear
Than
Them
Appear
Bright
Why
Travels
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Alan Dundes
Future
Progress
Impossible
Expectation
Nothing
Nothing Is Impossible
Combined
Notion
Orientation
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
Alan Dundes
Life
Nothing
Seems
Transitions
Series
There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B.
Alan Dundes
Group
Other
Self
Identity
Without
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
Alan Dundes
Myth
Legend
Folklore
Superstition
Study
Particular
Genres
Ballad
Proverb
Etc
Riddle
Largely
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 upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
Alan Dundes
Analysis
Collect
Must
Folklore
About
Above
Data
Write
Merely
Also
Course
Readings
Material
Context
Method
Lecture
Items
Texts
Theory
Based
Gather
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
Alan Dundes
Folklore
Only
Academic
Identity
Courses
Years
Taught
Many
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Alan Dundes
Family
Interviewing
Project
Consists
Members
Collection
Folklore
Term
Friends
Manage
Family Members
Anyone
Fieldwork
Create
Persuade
Serve
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 collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Alan Dundes
Myself
Class
Three
Insist
Reading
Become
Hundred
Collections
Running
Folklore
More
Student
Over
Look
Fairly
Learn
Although
Because
Tall
Always
Years
Order
Much
Forward
Large
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 original research.
Alan Dundes
Research
Other
Paper
Folklore
More
Term
Involving
Courses
Than
Fieldwork
Require
Original
Why
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Alan Dundes
Future
Time
Worldview
Past
Mentioned
Involves
American
Formulas
Present
I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.
Alan Dundes
Grateful
Be Grateful
Find
Folklore
Never
Became
Cease
Professional
Challenging
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
Alan Dundes
Believe
Unless
Neither
Folklore
Something
Come
Piece
Audience
Nor
Articulate
Might
Meaning
Means
Transmitted
Speaker
Even
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