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Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor Cycles and Stereotypes
- A. Dundes
- Psychology
- 1 March 1987
From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales
- A. Dundes
- History
- 1 April 1962
TRADITIONALLY, the study of folklore in general and folktales in particular has tended to be diachronic rather than synchronic. The emphasis has clearly been upon the genesis and development of…
Folk Ideas as Units of Worldview
- A. Dundes
- Art
- 1971
FOR SOME TIME NOW, folklorists have become increasingly annoyed at what they regard as a nonprofessional and indiscriminately extended use of the term "myth" to apply to a wide variety of materials.…
The Evil Eye: A Casebook
- A. Dundes
- Psychology
- 15 January 1992
The evil eye - the power to inflict illness, damage to property, or even death simply by gazing at or praising someone - is among the most pervasive and powerful folk beliefs in the Indo-European and…
Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (AFS Invited Presidential Plenary Address, 2004)
- A. Dundes
- Sociology
- 25 October 2005
The state of folkloristics at the beginning of the twenty-first century is depressingly worrisome. Graduate programs in folklore around the world have been disestablished or seriously weakened. The…
Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist
- A. Dundes
- Psychology
- 15 July 1987
In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic…
The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes
- A. Dundes, J. Leach, Bora Ozkok
- Linguistics
- 1 July 1970
THE UNDERLYING STRATEGY of specific traditional verbal encounters has not received much attention from anthropologists and folklorists. Anthropologists speak at length of joking or teasing…
Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
- A. Dundes, Simon J. Bronner
- History
- 31 October 2007
Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook
- Theodore C. Humphrey, A. Dundes
- History, Art
- 1 November 1982
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