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Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
~ Alan Dundes
Almost
American
Believe
Certainly
Joke
Kernel
Progress
Truth
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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
~ Alan Dundes
American
Disregard
Future
Past
Tend
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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
~ Alan Dundes
American
Enjoying
Moment
Often
Present
Present Moment
Trouble
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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
~ Alan Dundes
American
Ancestors
Asian
Characteristic
Children
Cultures
Does
Example
Favor
For Example
Grandparents
Piety
Really
Resonate
Who
Worship
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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
~ Alan Dundes
Bigger
Cities
Created
Enormous
Environmental
General
Getting
Life
More
More And More
More People
Move
Over
People
Pollution
Problems
Quality
Quality Of Life
Respect
Rural
Sites
Urban
World
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
~ Alan Dundes
Combined
Expectation
Future
Impossible
Nothing
Nothing Is Impossible
Notion
Orientation
Progress
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
~ Alan Dundes
Advantage
Bring
Class
Colleagues
Ethnic
Family
Folklore
Great
Great Advantage
Knowledge
Many
National
Over
Own
Personal
Regional
Religious
Students
Them
Traditions
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
~ Alan Dundes
American
Formulas
Future
Involves
Mentioned
Past
Present
Time
Worldview
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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.
~ Alan Dundes
About
Carry
Courses
Folklore
Graduate
He
He Or She
How
Including
Learn
Library
Out
Publish
Research
Seminars
Series
She
Should
Something
Student
Takes
The Graduate
Whole
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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.
~ Alan Dundes
Anthropology
Course
Folklore
Forms
Genres
How
Major
Minor
Show
Students
Try
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
~ Alan Dundes
Again
Culture
Emphasis
Far
Future
Great
Lens
Light
Look
Once
Our
Placed
Questions
See
Tactics
Through
Too
Try
Unreasonable
Which
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
~ Alan Dundes
Life
Nothing
Seems
Series
Transitions
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
~ Alan Dundes
Appear
Bright
Faster
Hear
Light
People
Some
Some People
Sound
Speak
Than
Them
Travels
Until
Why
You
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My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
~ Alan Dundes
Academic
Courses
Folklore
Identity
Many
Only
Taught
Years
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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.
~ Alan Dundes
Belong
Determine
Directions
Frequently
Likely
New
Once
Out
Past
Polls
Requiring
Taken
Tease
Trends
Try
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
~ Alan Dundes
Although
Always
Because
Become
Class
Collections
Fairly
Folklore
Forward
Hundred
Insist
Large
Learn
Look
More
Much
Myself
Order
Over
Reading
Running
Student
Tall
Three
Years
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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
~ Alan Dundes
Anyone
Collection
Consists
Create
Family
Family Members
Folklore
Friends
Interviewing
Manage
Members
Persuade
Project
Serve
Term
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There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
~ Alan Dundes
Courses
Folklore
Involving
More
Original
Other
Paper
Require
Research
Term
Than
Why
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
~ Alan Dundes
About
Above
Also
Analysis
Based
Collect
Context
Course
Data
Folklore
Gather
Items
Lecture
Material
Merely
Method
Must
Readings
Texts
Theory
Write
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As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
~ Alan Dundes
Articulate
Audience
Believe
Come
Even
Folklore
Meaning
Means
Might
Neither
Nor
Piece
Something
Speaker
Transmitted
Unless
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08 September, 1934
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30 March, 2005
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