The Study of Folklore

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A number of mostly minor typos, especially in foreign words, are found throughout the volumes. Some of them of course may reproduce errors in the original publications, but others (such as misspelled scholarly names) presumably do not. Mieder, Wolfgang (2006). " "The Proof Of The Proverb Is In The Probing": Alan Dundes as Pioneering Paremiologist". Western Folklore (Summer 2006) . Retrieved October 31, 2008.

Alessandro Falassi|Falassi, Alessandro (Co-author) (1984). La terra in Piazza: An interpretation of the Palio in Siena. University of California Press.

Dundes is often credited with the promotion of folkloristics as a term denoting a specific field of academic study and applies instead what he calls a "modern" flexible social definition for folk: two or more persons who have any trait in common and express their shared identity through traditions. Dundes explains this point best in his essay, The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory (1969): Burress, Charles (April 2, 2005). "UC folklorist Dundes dies while teaching; His scholarship helped to create an academic discipline". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved October 31, 2008. a b c d Hansen, William (2005). "In Memoriam: Alan Dundes 1934-2005". Journal of Folklore Research. 42 (2): 245–250. doi: 10.2979/JFR.2005.42.2.245. ISSN 0737-7037. JSTOR 3814602. S2CID 144101452. The editor begins Volume 1 with a brief general introduction to the compilation as a whole (xxv-xxvi) and an equally concise introduction to the present volume (1-2), after which he allows each of the twenty-four essays in the volume to speak for itself. For all their brevity Alan Dundes’s introductions here and at the head of the three subsequent volumes do manage to summarize nicely the key concerns of the papers. An index to all eighty-six papers appears in the fourth volume (477-506).

Bauman, Richard (ed.). 1992. Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-centered Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press. The second volume, The Founders of Folklore, is a selection of essays upon persons who figure notably in the historical development of folkloristics. It begins with the late eighteenth-century romantic nationalist Johann Gottfried Herder (25), continues with the Brothers Grimm (26), and proceeds to others. Among the scholars treated here are the Britons Lawrence Gomme (30) and James George Frazer (33), the Germans Max Müller (31) and Wilhelm Mannhardt (32), the Italian Giuseppe Pitrè (34), the Hungarian Béla Bartók (40), the Frenchman Arnold van Gennep (41), the Dutchman Jan de Vries (42), and the Russian Vladimir Propp (44). Notice is also taken of the prodigious Danish collector Evald Tang Kristensen (38) and the gifted Irish informant Peig Sayers (39).Still, some argue the discipline has gone too far in its eagerness to view lore as performance rather than object. For example, we know the Satanic ritual abuse narratives circulating in the 1990s were expressions of a recurring moral panic rooted in legend transmission. Studying similar legends, like the ones circulated during the sixteenth century European witch hunts, could give us important insights about both sets of narratives and the effect they had on people. That kind of scholarship might be useful during future moral panics. However, the only context we have for the transmission of those earlier legends is historical, and deriving an understanding of performance from documents over five hundred years old is a challenge, to say the least. So we would have to study the texts themselves. Alan Dundes, UC Berkeley professor and world expert in folklore studies, dies". American Folklore Society. Archived from the original on August 7, 2008 . Retrieved October 31, 2008. He met his wife Carolyn while attending Yale University. They were married for 48 years, [6] and had a son (David) two daughters (Lauren and Alison) and six grandchildren." [1]

These days, folklore is a broad discipline. Folklore scholars have studied the importance of molasses in the traditional Newfoundland diet, roadside crosses and their place in public expressions of grief, the practice of Neo-Pagan religion in the Ukraine, expressions of ethical belief in animal rights demonstrations, and many other elements of human culture. You can also find folklorists in the public sector; helping communities preserve their intangible cultural heritage, highlighting issues of race and class in museum exhibitions, facilitating intergenerational transmission of traditional boat-building techniques, helping domestic abuse survivors tell their stories, and so on. We still study what you might expect as well; legends, ballads, märchen, children’s games, vernacular architecture, and other such topics. Oring. Elliott. 1986. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: An Introduction. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. Dorson, Richard (ed.). 1972. Folklore and Folklife, An Introduction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. a b c d Oliver, Myrna (April 3, 2005). "Alan Dundes, 70; Folklorist Drew Laughs and Hostility". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 31, 2008.

The study of folklore

Alan Dundes, "From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales", The Journal of American Folklore; Vol. 75, No. 296 (Apr. - Jun. 1962), pp. 95-105 JSTOR 538171