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Dundes and folklore
ERIC SILVERMAN (ERICS@DEPAUW.EDU)
Wed, 6 Dec 1995 14:11:53 -0500
Alan Dundes, of course, is not just an urban folklorist, but is the
preeminent psychodynamic folklorist in America, whose work includes
interpretations of the potlatch, cockfight, bullroarer, myth--the stuff
of classic "anthropology."
For a full bibliography of Dundes as well as an introductory essay to his
work, see:
L.B. Boyer, R.M. Boyer, S.M. Sonnenberg, eds., 1995, Essays In Honor of
Alan Dundes, Hillsdale, NJ; Analytic Press.
IMHO, anthropologists have unfortunately neglected many of Dundes's essays,
despite the fact that they offer new insights into some of our "classic"
ethnographic cases.
Eric Silverman
Soc/Anthro
DePauw University
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