A biography for Alan Dundeshasn’t been written yet.
“My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.”
“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”
“Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.”
“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.”
“The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.”
“Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.”