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  Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes, 70, professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 30, 2005.
Alan Dundes was the most prolific and influential folklorist of his generation and, many would say, of all time.
Alan Dundes was a supportive, responsible, and hardworking colleague, and contributed selflessly to the advancement of his department and the field of folklore.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu /senate/inmemoriam/alandundes.htm   (847 words)

  
 Alan Dundes
Dundes is an expert on a wide variety of topics including urban folklore, cockfighting, proverbs, jokes, North American Indian folktales, and fairy tales.
Dundes was born and raised in New York, New York where he lived until he graduated from high school.
Dundes is a member of the American Folklore Society, the California Folklore Society, the American Anthropological Association and the International Society for Folk Narrative Research.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/dundes_alan.html   (345 words)

  
 Columbia Journal of American Studies - The Folklore Scholarship of Alan Dundes and the New American Studies
Dundes provided an exemplary use of this theory with his article “Pecking Chickens: A Folk Toy as a Source for the Study of Worldview,” in which he meticulously analyzed regional and national variations, that is oicotypes, of a common hand-held toy made up of several wooden chickens, which peck when triggered by a simple mechanism.
Dundes also consistently emphasized the transnational nature of folkloric data; he noted to his students that it takes only one bilingual person for an item of folklore to cross national and linguistic borders, and he criticized anthropologists for basing their theories of cultural specificity on folklore that exists simultaneously in multiple cultures (“Alan Dundes” 12).
Dundes steadily negotiated the borders of folkloristics with every single publication and speech; yet, his scholarly rigor not only put folkloristics on the intellectual map throughout the second half of the 20th century, but also contributed to the full internationalization of the discipline.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cjas/folklorescholarship.html   (3731 words)

  
 Alan Dundes | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Alan Dundes, 70, a folklorist whose lively explorations of everything from the office memo to the Koran made him one of the most celebrated figures in his field, died at a hospital in Berkeley.
Dundes had a heart attack while teaching at the University of California Berkeley, where he was a professor of anthropology and folklore.
Dundes was born Sept. 8, 1934, in New York, where his father, a lawyer, brought home great jokes from his bridge buddies on the commuter train.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050410/news_mz1j10dundes.html   (733 words)

  
 03.31.2005 - Alan Dundes, UC Berkeley professor and world expert in folklore studies, dies
Dundes became one of the most cited scholars in the world, and many of the prolific author's writings are required reading for students in a number of fields, Bronner said.
Dundes was the first folklorist to be elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and won the Pitré Prize, an international lifetime achievement award in folklore, in 1993.
Dundes Streiff is a professor of sociology, and Dundes Renteln is a professor of political science and anthropology.
www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/03/31_dundes.shtml   (1411 words)

  
 About Folklore: Alan Dundes Obituary
Dundes was so highly regarded as a teacher that in 2000, a former student sent him a check for $1 million; he used it to endow a distinguished professorship in folklore at Berkeley.
Alan Dundes, the UC Berkeley anthropology professor who gleefully applied Freudian analysis to his version of folklore — which included fairy tales, football, the Bible and photocopier jokes — and amused and angered readers as he went, has died.
Dundes is survived by his wife of 48 years, Carolyn, of Berkeley; a son, David, of Walnut Creek, two daughters, Lauren Dundes Streiff of Owings Mills, Md., and Alison Dundes Renteln of Altadena (Los Angeles County); and six grandchildren.
www.afsnet.org /aboutfolklore/DundesObituaries.cfm   (4726 words)

  
 California Folklore Society
Alan completed his doctoral studies in 1962 and that fall joined the English Department faculty at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Alan contributed significantly as well to internationalization of folkloristics by finding out who the leading folklorists in foreign countries were, corresponding and meeting with them, reading their works, and familiarizing American folklore students and scholars with their ideas and concerns.
For the most part, Alan was able to accomplish what he did, and impact his discipline the ways he did, because he was brilliant, curious, organized, self-directed, determined, energetic, daring, uninhibited, astute, and jovial.
westernfolklore.org /AlanDundesTribute.htm   (2358 words)

  
 Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes, who died shortly after being interviewed for The God Who Wasn't There, was professor of folklore at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dundes was one of the school's most beloved professors.
Additionally, in the DVD's special features, there is an extended interview with Dundes, in which this engaging and often humorous speaker offers insights into a variety of subjects related to religion and folklore.
www.thegodmovie.com /alandundes   (180 words)

  
 Alan Dundes (1934-2005): In Memoriam Western Folklore - Find Articles
Alan Dundes was a big man in all respects - a giant of international folkloristics, a magnanimous mentor and teacher of thousands of eager students, a respected and admired colleague, a treasured friend, and a special hero in a world in such desperate need of humane scholars.
Alan Dundes is the perfect proof that proverbs are not universal truths, for he was indeed a Jack of all trades and master of all.
Alan Dundes was a great communicator, a person who never tired of championing folklore as a science that offers answers to some of the most complex questions of humanity.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_200410/ai_n15846386   (935 words)

  
 Alan Dundes Folklore - Find Articles
Alan Dundes died at the University of California, Berkeley, on 30 March 2005, doing what he loved--teaching folklore theory and methods to a group of advanced folklore students.
Alan Dundes was born in New York, the son of a lawyer and a music teacher.
Professor Dundes also produced studies of political jokes in Romania (Dundes and Banc 1986) and in Eastern Europe (Dundes and Banc 1990), along with a larger study of sick jokes and stereotypes (Dundes 1987b).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2386/is_2_116/ai_n15384191   (748 words)

  
 ISFNR-International Society for Folk Narrative Research
Moreover, in his conduct he made it so clear for his disciples from the youngest undergraduate to his colleagues from the whole world, that as folklorists they mattered and were always welcome to that happily chaotic room at the end of the corridor.
It was there that many of us had the opportunity to receive the great acts of intellectual and pedagogic generosity that were Alan Dundes’ hallmark: encouraging them to publish their work, offering himself as an active co-author, and generally imparting loads of his incessant treasure of knowledge.
Alan Dundes will be deeply mourned by the members of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, folklore scholars from all continents and islands, who have always seen in him one of their great scholarly models.
www.hgo.se /isfnr/alan.htm   (578 words)

  
 Alan Dundes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sure that he would be drafted upon completion of his studies, Dundes joined the ROTC and trained to become a naval communications officer.
Alan Dundes was a very engaging lecturer, his Introduction to Folklore course attracting upwards of 400 students in some years.
In this course, students were introduced to the many various forms of folklore, from myth, legend, and folktale to proverbs and riddles to jokes, games, and folkspeech (slang), to folk belief and foodways.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Dundes   (966 words)

  
 Alan Dundes | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
As one of the most admired and influential folklorists in the world, Alan Dundes, who has died of a heart attack aged 70, examined everything from American football to fairytales and the Koran - but his popular reputation was as an authority on jokes.
Dundes was a native of New York and the son of a lawyer and a musician.
Dundes used it to found a folklore professorship at Berkeley.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1471679,00.html   (606 words)

  
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Dundes had a series of books devoted to what he called "Urban folklore in the paperwork empire." It examines the attitudes and humor of the office place, and explains why Scott Adams’ "Dilbert" is such a resounding success as a cartoon strip.
Dundes wrote, "It is not a question of ‘making’ the bible folklore; it is folklore." This upset the Christian right (social conservatives who like to hit people over the head with their god), who apparently were unaware of the fact that folklore doesn’t necessary imply falsity.
Dundes was a keen observer who realized that ballads were folklore, and that the tune in a ballad was every bit as significant as the lyrics.
zeppscommentaries.com /Sociology/dundes.htm   (1638 words)

  
 Alan Dundes, at 70; folklorist known as the Joke Professor - The Boston Globe
Alan Dundes, at 70; folklorist known as the Joke Professor - The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON -- Alan Dundes, a folklorist whose lively explorations of everything from the office memo to the Koran made him one of the most celebrated figures in his field, died Wednesday at a hospital in Berkeley, Calif. He was 70.
Dundes was born in New York, where his father, a lawyer, brought home great jokes from his bridge buddies on the commuter train.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/04/alan_dundes_at_70_folklorist_known_as_the_joke_professor?mode=PF   (866 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Joke and Folklore Scholar Alan Dundes Dies
Alan Dundes, 70, a folklorist whose lively explorations of everything from the office memo to the Koran made him one of the most celebrated figures in his field, died March 30 at a hospital in Berkeley, Calif.
Dundes had an ample scholarly range, from Grimm Brothers fairy tales to the Ten Commandments, from bloodsucking vampires to Cinderella.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Carolyn Browne Dundes of Berkeley; three children, Alison Dundes Renteln of Altadena, Calif., Lauren Dundes Streiff of Owings Mills, Md., and David Dundes of Walnut Creek, Calif.; a sister; and six grandchildren.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A17389-2005Mar31?language=printer   (892 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Vampire: A Casebook: Livres en anglais: Alan Dundes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dundes (The Walled-Up Wife, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1996) presents a collection of essays by renowned folklorists (Friedrich Krauss, Juliette du Boulay, Paul Barber, and others) in an attempt to explain and define the tradition of the vampire outside the context of literature and legend.
Alan Dundes is a truly remarkable scholar."-Wolfgang Mieder, professor of German and folklore and author of The Politics of Proverbs
For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes.
www.amazon.fr /Vampire-Casebook-Alan-Dundes/dp/0299159248   (523 words)

  
 Vampire library of Darkness : Vampire, the : A Casebook, Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes is a truly remarkable scholar."-Wolfgang Mieder, professor of German and folklore and author of The Politics of Proverbs Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore.
Alan Dundes is professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley.
Excerpted from The Vampire : A Casebook by Alan Dundes.
www.vampires.nu /pages/Books.cfm/ID/114   (468 words)

  
 Alan Dundes Remembered
It is with tremendous sadness that the Department announces the passing of Professor Alan Dundes.
Alan collapsed while lecturing in his afternoon class Wednesday, March 30.
We are in shock at the passing of one of the most beloved and respected members of the anthropology community.
anthropology.berkeley.edu /dundes_remembered.html   (77 words)

  
 Teaching Anthropology at Berkeley: Faculty and Students - Alan Dundes: 1994 Recipient of the Distinguished Teaching ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"Alan Dundes has shaped the course of folklore studies through his teaching, by passing on his infectious love for folklore to his students."
From: Regina Bendix and Rosemar L. Zumwalt, Folklore Interpreted Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes.
The caller, a former student, wanted to confirm that Alan Dundes was still teaching folklore at Berkeley, and make a gift [of one million dollars] to the university in his honor."
sunsite.berkeley.edu /Anthro/Centennial/teaching/dundes.html   (146 words)

  
 In Quest of the Hero by Otto Rank, Alan Dundes, Lord Raglan - 0691020620
Amplifying these is Alan Dundess fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha.
Dundes, the eminent folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley, applies the theories of Rank, Raglan, and others to the case of Jesus.
In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and Dundes, Robert Segal, author of the major study of Joseph Campbell, charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell.
www.allbookstores.com /book/0691020620/Alan_Dundes/In_Quest_Of_The_Hero.html   (247 words)

  
 Folklorist Alan Dundes dead at 70 | MetaFilter
The world-renowned folklorist, 70, tackled everything from religion to political jokes with an infectious enthusiam that endeared him to students, academics, and laymen alike.
Dundes was often contacted by reporters looking for scholarly explanations of popular culture.
Alan Dundes' Introduction to Folkloristics at UC Berkeley was one of the most memorable and entertaining classes on campus and was certainly a highlight of my education there.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/40896   (813 words)

  
 UW Press - : Little Red Riding Hood, A Casebook, edited by Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes continues his exploration of well-loved fairy tales with this casebook on one of the best-known of them all: Little Red Riding Hood.
"Alan Dundes, the prominent psychoanalytical folklorist, offers another tour de force to entertain and educate the scholarly and the lay readership remembering their childhood fascination with bedtime stories.
Alan Dundes (1934–2005), was professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, and published ten books with the University of Wisconsin Press,
www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/0501.htm   (378 words)

  
 Imponderables: Alan Dundes, R.I.P.
Alan Dundes, R.I.P. With the deaths of Pope John Paul and Terry Schiavo dominating the news, I wanted to acknowledge the passing of one of the great figures of popular culture scholarship -- folklorist Alan Dundes.
Popular culture is a body of subject matter, usually the stuff that they don't let you study in school.
But Alan Dundes, a fixture at the University of California Berkeley, spent a lifetime analyzing the texture of everyday life.
www.imponderables.com /archives/000207.php   (159 words)

  
 Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing - Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire - Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter
Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"—the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through copy machines, interoffice mail systems, and fax machines and are affixed to bulletin boards and water coolers.
The popularity of the items featured in this timely book is apparent by their reproduction in mass or popular cultural form—as greeting cards, plaques, and bumper stickers—reminding us of the inevitable interplay between folklore and mass culture.
Dundes and Pagter clearly demonstrate the existence of folklore in the modern urban technological world and refute the notion that folklore reflects only the past.
wsupress.wayne.edu /literature/humor/dundesnttps.htm   (218 words)

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