Author: Alan Dundes

This book helps us resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible’s pre-written legacy and that persist in the Great Book today. Most biblical scholars acknowledge tha …

Given the widespread consensus that the Quran was in oral tradition before being committed to written form, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Quran still bears the traces of its origina …

Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early di …

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning …

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of books written about Judaism and Jews, but this book is unlike any previously published. It focuses on the topic of ‘circumventing custom’ with special …

This is a collection of Alaska Native folklore and mythology. All the various regions and tribal groups are represented in this collection. The collector is John Smelcer who is a writer, poet, and fo …

Originally published in 1994, Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines the meeting place of folklore – the unwritten law of obligations and prohibitions that are understood …

Originally published in 1994, Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines the meeting place of folklore – the unwritten law of obligations and prohibitions that are understood …

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace.Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates …

Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are b …

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Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Ever since Freud published his anal …

Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Ever since Freud published his anal …

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Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early di …

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide stu …

In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank’s Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan’s The Hero. Amplifyi …

This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The …

The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journal …