Alan Dundes
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Alan Dundes was an American folklorist whose four-decade tenure at the University of California, Berkeley helped define folkloristics as an academic discipline.
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Alan Dundes was an American folklorist whose four-decade tenure at the University of California, Berkeley helped define folkloristics as an academic discipline. Obituaries remembered him as the most renowned folklorist of his time and noted his authorship of 12 books, two dozen edited volumes, and more than 250 articles interpreting myth, proverb, and folk belief. Dundes advanced psychoanalytic and structural readings of folklore and urged colleagues to pair collection with theory in delineating the field. His willingness to probe national character and popular ritual, including a controversial 1980 address on German culture and a psychoanalytic study of American football, drew both acclaim and death threats.
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