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Alan Dundes

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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


— Alan Dundes


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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.


— Alan Dundes


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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.


— Alan Dundes


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Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.


— Alan Dundes


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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.


— Alan Dundes


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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.


— Alan Dundes


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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.


— Alan Dundes


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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.


— Alan Dundes


#formulas #future #i #involves #mentioned

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 how they can be analyzed.


— Alan Dundes


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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.


— Alan Dundes


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The professor instead decided to invest it in the study of folklore. ) Every Man His Way: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. "A Study of Ethnic Slurs".

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. Alan Dundes (September 8 1934 – March 30 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California Berkeley.

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