Alan Dundes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 86996 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Dundes |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Dundes |
| ASSINATURA | DUNDES A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 151 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 684 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 151 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Analytic Essays in Folklore
Bir Yunan Oyunu Makria Yaidoura (Uzun Eşek) Akdeniz Tipi Maskülenliğin Ergenler
Young hero Simba defeats old villain Scar
Prior studies of Disney's animated film The Lion King focus on its flattering portrayal of a patriarchical society in which a segment of residents (hyenas) are marginalized. These analyses, however, neglect Oedipal themes and the respectful portrayal of parents that may be key to the film's great popularity
Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (AFS Invited Presidential Plenary Address, 2004)
Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (AFS Invited Presidential Plenary Address, 2004) Alan Dundes, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology (bio) The state of folkloristics at the beginning of the twenty-first century is depressingly worrisome. Graduate programs in folklore around the world have been disestablished or seriously weakened. The once-celebrated program at the University of Copenhagen no longer exists. Folklore programs in Germany …
Responses to ?A Lost Track
"Much Ado About "Sweet Bugger All
One of the lexical items differentiating British English from American English is the word bugger. Popular in England as attested by numerous idioms and its frequent occurrence in limericks, it is rarely used in the United States and if it is, it is without reference to its original sense of sodomy. It is suggested that this marked contrast in usage may possibly be related to different attitudes towards homosexuality existing in England and the U…
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
"Projective Inversion in the Ancient Egyptian "Tale of Two Brothers
After a brief review of the folkloristic scholarship devoted to the ancient Egyptian tale of two brothers, an attempt is made to distinguish between the concepts of projection and projective inversion. The utilization of the second concept seeks to illuminate the possible meaning of the tale including the initial part, which consists of the widespread Potiphar's Wife motif
International Folkloristics
Chapter 1 Circular Concerning the Collecting of Folk Poetry Chapter 2 Folk-Lore and the Origin of the Word Chapter 3 Request Chapter 4 An Angel Flew Through the Room Chapter 5 The Study of Folk-Lore Chapter 6 The Method of Julius Krohn Chapter 7 The Message of the Folk-Lorist Chapter 8 On the Need for a Bibliography of Folklore Chapter 9 A Dialogue in Gyergyo-Kilenyfalva Chapter 10 In Search of Folktales and Songs Chapter 11 Epic Laws of Folk Nar…
An Uplifting Origin Of86
Research Article| November 01 2001 AN UPLIFTING ORIGIN OF 86 ALAN DUNDES ALAN DUNDES Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (4): 437–440. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-4-437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation ALAN DUNDES; AN UPLIFTING ORIGIN OF 86. American Speech 1 November 2001; 76 (4): 437–440. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283…
Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow
This provocative book by a leading folklorist offers a new analysis of caste in India, focusing on the rationale underlying the customs surrounding untouchability. Drawing on clues contained in two fascinating folktales, Alan Dundes goes beyond Dumont's classic Homo Hierarchicus in deconstructing the pervasive pollution complex that prevents millions of individuals from entering temples or drawing water from community wells. His graceful and erud…
Obituaries
Other| January 01 1999 Obituaries: Daniel J. Crowley (1921–98) Alan Dundes; Alan Dundes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John Michael Vlach; John Michael Vlach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philip M. Peek Philip M. Peek Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (443): 74–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/541403 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. Alan Dundes is a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to apply…
The Vampire
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
of the most disheartening aspects of folkloristics, the scientific study of folklore, is the persistent lack of analysis or interpretation. It is not just popularizers who churn out anthology after anthology of only without attention to context or possible meaning(s) of such texts, but the academic folklorists themselves, who despite pretentious definitional debates about the wisdom of continuing to use the term or exaggerated claims of the impor…
A Pariah People
An anthropological study of antisemitism which identifies why strategies for normalising the status of Jews have failed. The role Jews historically played in Christian society is compared to that of the untouchables in India, with claims that the stigma has been reinforced through myth and art
Binary Opposition in Myth
In 1928, Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp published his pathbreaking Morphology of Folktale in a limited printing of only 1600 copies (Bravo 1972:45). In his Morphology, Propp delineated a syntagmatic sequence of thirty-one which he claimed defined Russian fairy tale (Aarne-Thompson tale types 300-749). Unfortunately, few Western scholars read Russian and Propp's important monograph had little impact upon direction of folk narrative study. Only …
Jumping the Broom
Avant les annees 1980, montrer les continuites culturelles entre les Africains et les Afro-americains etait percu comme du racisme. Aujourd'hui, il s'agit d'affirmer une identite culturelle. La tradition de sauter par-dessus un balais lors du mariage est venue des esclaves noirs d'Amerique et non des Africains d'Afrique. Cette tradition, que l'on retrouve en Ecosse et en Angleterre, est europeenne. Le saut reussi est symbole de bonheur futur. Le …
Folk Law
In every culture there exists unwritten law obligations and prohibitions that are understood and passed on, and transgressions that are punished. Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volume collection of essays, examines this meeting place of folklore and jurisprudence. The contributors explore the historical significance and implications of folk law, its continuing influence around the globe, and the conflicts that arise when folk law diverges from off…
Worldview in Folk Narrative
Playdoyer en faveur de la prise en compte de la vision du monde dans l'etude du recit populaire. Au-dela de l'ancienne notion de vision du monde qui s'interesse a la vision qu'a l'homme de sa place dans le monde, une notion plus moderne tend a etre plus cognitive et plus structurelle. Exemple tire de l'essai d'Erdesz sur les Ami
How Indic Parallels to the Ballad of the "Walled-up Wife" Reveal the Pitfalls of Parochial Nationalistic Folkloristics
La ballade de la femme emmuree est un sujet commun a l'Europe de l'Est. S'interrogeant sur les origines de cette ballade, aucun chercheur, a cause du nationalisme paroissial, n'a vu le parallele avec les ballades indiennes et chacun estimait que sa version etait la plus esthetique. A l'approche litterale du mythe-rituel (la femme est emmuree pour apaiser les divinites) sont proposees deux alternatives : une interpretation masculine (l'homme bâtis…
Folk Law
Journal Article Folk Law: Essays In The Theory And Practice Of Lex Non Scripta. Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln & Alan Dundes Get access Folk Law: Essays In The Theory And Practice Of Lex Non Scripta. Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln & Alan Dundes. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1994. Pp. 1037 in two vols. Walter Otto Weyrauch Walter Otto Weyrauch *Member, Board of Editors Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Towards a Metaphorical Reading of 'Break a Leg
The Blood Libel Legend
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore1
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Bullroarer
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience--Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ralph Ellison, A. Philip Randolph, Newbell Niles Puckett, Roger D. Abra…
From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales
TRADITIONALLY, the study of folklore in general and folktales in particular has tended to be diachronic rather than synchronic. The emphasis has clearly been upon the genesis and development of folkloristic materials rather than upon the structure of these materials. Folklorists of the late nineteenth century were much more concerned with how folklore came into being than with what folklore was. Genetic explanations were considered sufficient to …
The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales
Earth-Diver
Binary Opposition in Myth
In 1928, Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp published his pathbreaking Morphology of Folktale in a limited printing of only 1600 copies (Bravo 1972:45). In his Morphology, Propp delineated a syntagmatic sequence of thirty-one which he claimed defined Russian fairy tale (Aarne-Thompson tale types 300-749). Unfortunately, few Western scholars read Russian and Propp's important monograph had little impact upon direction of folk narrative study. Only …
The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory
La Terra in Piazza
Structural Typology in North American Indian Folktales
Magic
Comparison of aspects of magical belief and practice with elements identified in experimental parapsychology suggests that some magical phenomena may have their basis in what parapsychology in call psi. Similarities are found between magic and parapsychology in (1) conditions that facilitate the manifestation of magical and psi phenomena, (2) the mental processes implicated as effective in producing magical and psi phenomena, (3) the basic princi…
The American Concept of Folklore
It is probably unwise to speak of concept of as if there were just one. In past, and even in present, there has been considerable disagreement among folklorists as to nature of One is tempted to suggest that there have been almost as many of as there have been folklorists. Thus the concept of folklore can really only be discussed as some of folklore. By American I refer to North and more specifically to United States of America. The peoples of La…
Into the Endzone for a Touchdown
The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes
THE UNDERLYING STRATEGY of specific traditional verbal encounters has not received much attention from anthropologists and folklorists. Anthropologists speak at length of joking or teasing relationships in general, but rarely do they describe in detail actual verbal duels or provide anything remotely resembling explication de texte. Folklorists, who tend to be textrather than context-oriented, do at least present reasonably complete texts of insu…
Folk Ideas as Units of Worldview
FOR SOME TIME NOW, folklorists have become increasingly annoyed at what they regard as a nonprofessional and indiscriminately extended use of the term to apply to a wide variety of materials. Accordingly, folklorists are wont to shudder when they read discussions about the of capitalism or the of race by different social scientists, who often use simply as a synonym for error or fallacy. These definitely are not what the folklorist means by the t…
Thinking Ahead
In examining the possibility of extrapolating features of worldview from folkloristic data, the author considers the allegation that Americans are future oriented in the light of various examples of American folklore. Numerous proverbs, greetings, folk metaphors and other traditional oral formulas seem to reveal both a penchant for looking ahead and a reluctance to look back. The evidence cited includes contrasts between future and past oriented …
The Wisdom of Many
The Wisdom of Many explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than twenty essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics, and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time, drawing on African, Chinese, Spanish, Finnish, Irish, and Yiddish examples
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (AFS Invited Presidential Plenary Address, 2004)
Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (AFS Invited Presidential Plenary Address, 2004) Alan Dundes, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology (bio) The state of folkloristics at the beginning of the twenty-first century is depressingly worrisome. Graduate programs in folklore around the world have been disestablished or seriously weakened. The once-celebrated program at the University of Copenhagen no longer exists. Folklore programs in Germany …
Toward a Structural Definition of the Riddle
At Ease, Disease-Aids Jokes as Sick Humor
Sacred Narrative. Readings in the Theory of Myth
The Gomer
ONE OF THE GROUPS LEAST STUDIED BY FOLKLORISTS is the medical profession. To be sure, there has been a long-standing scholarly interest in folk medicine, but this refers primarily to medicine practiced by patients themselves or by healers not usually considered to be part of the medical establishment. Folk medicine, in fact, is often contrasted with so-called scientific medicine. This has perhaps tended to suggest that scientific medicine is devo…
The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture
of those within tend to divide folklorists into literary or anthropological categories. With this binary division comes a related notion that each group of folklorists has its own methodology appropriate for its special interests; hence there is thought to be a method for studying folklore in literature and another method for studying folklore in culture. Looking at this dichotomy from the viewpoint of a professional folklorist, one can see that …
Parallel Paths
The Binary Structure of "Unsuccessful Repetition" in Lithuanian Folk Tales
Some Minor Genres of Obscene Folklore
FOLKLORISTS have finally recognized that the study of oral tradition must include serious consideration of obscene material.' Attention has been drawn to off-color variants of the major folklore genres, such as folktales and folksongs. However, there are a number of folkloristic forms circulating widely in American oral tradition in which obscenity is more often the rule than the exception.2 These minor genres are generally characterized by set o…
From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales
TRADITIONALLY, the study of folklore in general and folktales in particular has tended to be diachronic rather than synchronic. The emphasis has clearly been upon the genesis and development of folkloristic materials rather than upon the structure of these materials. Folklorists of the late nineteenth century were much more concerned with how folklore came into being than with what folklore was. Genetic explanations were considered sufficient to …
Mother Goose Vice Verse
Washington Irving's Version of the Seminole Origin of Races
Washington Irving was very much interested in the American Indian. In a number of his writings he described various aspects of specific Indian cultures.' This interest is apparent in an article of his on the Seminoles which was first published in The Knickerbocker in 1840. In this article, Irving relates a speech which a Seminole chief delivered to a Florida governor, William P. Duval. Included in the text of the speech is a narrative from Semino…
Earth-Diver
American Indian Student Slang
traditions may include folk speech and, more particularly, slang. At Haskell Institute, one of the most famous federal schools for Indians, located in Lawrence, Kansas, the more than I,ooo students attending in 1962 came from no fewer than eighty different tribes from thirty states. Although the boys and girls who go to Haskell for vocational training may still speak their native language, the language spoken at the school is English. Thus, Engli…
Kansas University Slang
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, the developing concern for the oral as opposed to the written tradition and the romantic attachment to the folk and their idiom resulted in a host of minor but scholarly studies of slang. The remarkable vitality of common speech attracted the attention of both anthropologists and poets. E. B. Tylor, one of the founders of modern anthropology, felt that an analysis of the evolution of slang would reveal those general law…
Rejoinder to Parker's Comments on Dundes' Article
Dundes' Reply to Mann
Toward a Structural Definition of the Riddle
Indian Tales of North America
Play-Party Games from Kansas
The Anatomy of Dirty Words
Structural Typology in North American Indian Folktales
Robert Lee J. Vance
Some Yoruba Wellerisms, Dialogue Proverbs, and Tongue-Twisters
(1964). Some Yoruba Wellerisms, Dialogue Proverbs, and Tongue-Twisters. Folklore: Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 113-120
A Choctaw Tongue-Twister and Two Examples of Creek Word Play
A Cheyenne Version of Tale-Type 1176
Twenty-Three Riddles from Central Burma
Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore1
Structural Models in Folklore. Elli-Kaija Köungäs, and Pierre Maranda
Ethnomusicology and Folklore
On Computers and Folk Tales
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