Alan Dundes
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American folklorist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alan Dundes was an American folklorist. He spent much of his career as a professional academic at the University of California, Berkeley and published his ideas in a wide range of books and articles.
Alan Dundes's Published Works
Published Works
- The study of folklore (1965) (275)
- The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply] (1974) (156)
- Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore1 (1964) (135)
- Sacred Narrative. Readings in the Theory of Myth (1986) (128)
- From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales (1962) (100)
- The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes (1970) (90)
- The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales (1980) (90)
- Folk Ideas as Units of Worldview (1971) (82)
- The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory (1969) (80)
- The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb@@@The Evil Eye: A Folklore Casebook (1983) (79)
- Magic: A Theoretical Reassessment [and Comments and Replies] (1982) (77)
- The "Flood" Myth. (1989) (76)
- Mother wit from the laughing barrel;: Readings in the interpretation of Afro-American folklore (1972) (75)
- The motif-index and the tale type index : A critique (1997) (72)
- Toward a Structural Definition of the Riddle (1963) (66)
- Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cycles and Stereotypes (1987) (66)
- The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore (1994) (64)
- The Evil Eye: A Casebook (1992) (63)
- Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism (1966) (57)
- Binary opposition in myth : The Propp/Lévi-Strauss debate in retrospect (1997) (53)
- Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (AFS Invited Presidential Plenary Address, 2004) (2005) (53)
- Earth‐Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male (1962) (52)
- A Study of Ethnic Slurs: The Jew and the Polack in the United States (1971) (52)
- Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook (1989) (51)
- Work hard and you shall be rewarded : urban folklore from the paperwork empire (1978) (48)
- The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation (1965) (47)
- La Terra in Piazza: An Interpretation of the Palio of Siena (1983) (44)
- At Ease, Disease—AIDS Jokes as Sick Humor (1987) (41)
- The Evil eye : a folklore casebook (1981) (40)
- Bruno Bettelheim's Uses of Enchantment and Abuses of Scholarship (1991) (39)
- Cinderella, a casebook (1991) (39)
- Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection of the Future Orientation in American Worldview (1969) (38)
- Structural Typology in North American Indian Folktales (1963) (38)
- A Psychoanalytic Study of the Bullroarer (1976) (38)
- The Wandering Jew : essays in the interpretation of a Christian legend (1988) (38)
- In Quest of the Hero (1990) (38)
- Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist (1987) (33)
- Into the Endzone for a Touchdown: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football (1978) (33)
- The Cockfight: A Casebook (1994) (33)
- The Gomer: A Figure of American Hospital Folk Speech (1978) (33)
- Projection in Folklore: A Plea for Psychoanalytic Semiotics (1976) (32)
- Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook (1985) (30)
- When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators: More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (1987) (29)
- Urban folklore from the paperwork empire (1975) (28)
- Folk Law: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta (1994) (28)
- Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes (2007) (27)
- Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook (1982) (26)
- The Ritual Murder of Blood Libel Legend: A Study of Anti-Semitic Victimization through Projective Inversion (1989) (25)
- Analytic Essays in Folklore. (1977) (25)
- The American Concept of Folklore (1966) (25)
- Folk law : essays in the theory and practice of Lex non scripta (1995) (22)
- Life Is like a Chicken Coop Ladder. A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore (1984) (21)
- Every man his way : readings in cultural anthropology (1968) (20)
- Folklore as a Mirror of Culture. (1969) (20)
- Foolproof : A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor (2004) (20)
- The walled-up wife : a casebook (1996) (19)
- Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe.George L. Mosse (1986) (19)
- First Prize: Fifteen Years! An Annotated Collection of Romanian Political Jokes (1987) (19)
- Life is like a chicken coop ladder : a study of German national character through folklore (1989) (19)
- The dead baby joke cycle. (1979) (19)
- A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India (1997) (18)
- Essays in Folkloristics (1981) (18)
- From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore (1997) (18)
- The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales (1971) (18)
- The Trident and the Fork: Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ as a male construction of an Electral fantasy (2000) (18)
- Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore (1992) (17)
- Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (1991) (17)
- The Blood Libel Legend (1991) (17)
- Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow: A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability (2000) (16)
- International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore (1999) (15)
- Kansas University Slang: A New Generation (1963) (14)
- Bloody Mary in the Mirror: A Ritual Reflection of Pre-Pubescent Anxiety (1998) (14)
- The Anthropologist and the Comparative Method in Folklore in The Comparative Method in Folklore. (1986) (14)
- The Vampire: A Casebook (1998) (14)
- Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics (2002) (14)
- Sometimes the Dragon Wins: Yet More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (1996) (13)
- The Psychoanalytic Study of the Grimms' Tales with Special Reference to “The Maiden Without Hands” (AT 706) (1987) (13)
- A Psychiatric Study of Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning and Usefulness (1964) (12)
- Jumping the broom : On the origin and meaning of an African American wedding custom (1996) (12)
- To Love My Father All : A Psychoanalytic Study of the Folklore Source of King Lear (1976) (11)
- Some Minor Genres of Obscene Folklore (1962) (10)
- The J. A. P. and the J. A. M. in American Jokelore (1985) (9)
- The Binary Structure of "Unsuccessful Repetition" in Lithuanian Folk Tales (1962) (9)
- You Call This Living?: A Collection of East European Political Jokes (1990) (9)
- On Computers and Folk Tales (1965) (9)
- On elephantasy and elephanticide. (1969) (9)
- Much Ado About "Sweet Bugger All": Getting to the Bottom of a Puzzle in British Folk Speech (2002) (9)
- The art of mixing metaphors: A folkloristic interpretation of the Netherlandish proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1981) (9)
- Some Yoruba Wellerisms, Dialogue Proverbs, and Tongue-Twisters (1964) (8)
- Young hero Simba defeats old villain Scar: Oedipus wrecks the Lyin’ King (2006) (7)
- The Mobile SCUD Missile Launcher and Other Persian Gulf Warlore: An American Folk Image of Saddam Hussein's Iraq (1991) (7)
- More on Auschwitz Jokes (1988) (7)
- The Migration of Folktales: Four Channels to the Americas [and Comments and Reply] (1974) (7)
- Projective Inversion in the Ancient Egyptian "Tale of Two Brothers" (2002) (7)
- A Choctaw Tongue-Twister and Two Examples of Creek Word Play (1964) (7)
- The 1991 archer Taylor memorial lecture. The apple-shot : interpreting the legend of William Tell (1991) (6)
- Twenty-Three Riddles from Central Burma (1964) (6)
- American Indian Student Slang (1963) (5)
- Jokes and covert language attitudes: the curious case of the wide-mouth frog (1977) (5)
- Why Don't Sheep Shrink When It Rains?: A Further Collection of Photocopier Folklore (2000) (5)
- Many Hands Make Light Work or Caught in the Act of Screwing in Light Bulbs (1981) (5)
- 17. Fairy Tales from a Folkloristic Perspective (1987) (5)
- Worldview in Folk Narrative: An Addendum (1995) (4)
- The Cultural Evolution of Tort Law (2013) (4)
- Folklore theses and dissertations in the United States (1976) (4)
- How Indic Parallels to the Ballad of the "Walled-up Wife" Reveal the Pitfalls of Parochial Nationalistic Folkloristics (1995) (4)
- From definition to discipline (2005) (3)
- An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer (1971) (2)
- Mother Goose Vice Verse (1962) (2)
- Six Inches from the Presidency: The Gary Hart Jokes as Public Opinion (1989) (2)
- Robert Lee J. Vance: American Folklore Surveyor of the 1890's (1964) (2)
- North american indian Folklore Studies (1967) (2)
- Towards a Metaphorical Reading of 'Break a Leg': A Note on Folklore of the Stage (1994) (2)
- Polish Pope Jokes (1979) (2)
- Washington Irving's Version of the Seminole Origin of Races (1962) (2)
- An Uplifting Origin of 86 (2001) (1)
- Dundes' Reply to Mann (1963) (1)
- "Best of all possible friends" : three decades of correspondence between the folklorists Alan Dundes and Wolfgang Mieder (2006) (1)
- Structural Models in Folklore. Elli‐Kaija Köungäs, and Pierre Maranda (1964) (1)
- Folkloristics : theories and methods (2005) (1)
- Indian tales of North America (1961) (1)
- First Prize: Fifteen Years! An Annotated Collection of Political Jokes (1987) (1)
- Modern fiction studies (1962) (1)
- Two Applications for Admission to U$cents (1996) (0)
- Hasan-Rokem and Dundes's "The Wandering Jew" (1986) (0)
- Structural Typology in North American Indian Folktales (1986) (0)
- Play-Party Games from Kansas (1963) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY: A Folklore Reader. Kenneth and Mary Clarke (1966) (0)
- Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth (1986) (0)
- OTHER: Myths of Creation. Philip Freund (1967) (0)
- Response (2003) (0)
- Responses to ?A Lost Track? (2003) (0)
- Parsing through Customs (2003) (0)
- The genres of folklore (2005) (0)
- The complete bibliography of Robert H. Lowie (1966) (0)
- ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND FOLKLORE: A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore. Kenneth S. Goldstein (1965) (0)
- The Anatomy of Dirty Words (1963) (0)
- Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture through Folklore. (1984) (0)
- Obituaries: Daniel J. Crowley (1921–98) (1999) (0)
- Rejoinder to Parker's Comments on Dundes' Article (1963) (0)
- THE EVIL EYE (2014) (0)
- BAR DICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (2006) (0)
- Some Characteristic Meters of Hindi Riddle Prosody (1974) (0)
- A Cheyenne Version of Tale-Type 1176 (1964) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY: The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, Volume III. Warner Muensterberger and Sidney Axelrad (1966) (0)
- The Walled-up Wife: A Casebook@@@Old Man Coyote: The Authorized Edition@@@Mongolian Folktales@@@The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid (1999) (0)
- The founders of folklore (2005) (0)
- THE PRESIDENT'S STATUE AND THE PROMISED LAND (1963) (0)
- International Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (2004) (0)
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