Bücher von Alan Dundes

Dundes offers a new and exciting way to resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible's prewritten legacy and that persist today. He unearths and contrasts multiple versions of nearly every major biblical event, including the creation of woman, the flood, the ten commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, and the inscription on the Cross.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- Preface -- Section One: Folklore Theory And Method -- 1. The American Concept Of Folklore -- 2. The Devolutionary Premise In Folklore Theory -- 3. The Study Of Folklore In Literature And Culture: Identification And Interpretation -- 4. Proverbs And The Ethnography Of Speaking Folklore -- 5. Metafolklore And Oral Literary Criticism -- Section Two: Structural Analysis Of Folklore -- 6. From Etic To Emic Units In The Structural Study Of Folktales -- 7. Structural Typology In North American Indian Folktales -- 8. On Game Morphology: A Study Of The Structure Of Non-Verbal Folklore -- 9. The Structure Of Superstition -- 10. Toward A Structural Definition Of The Riddle -- 11. On The Structure Of The Proverb -- Section Three: The Psychoanalytic Approach -- 12. On The Psychology Of Collecting Folklore -- 13. Earth-Diver: Creation Of The Mythopoeic Male -- 14. Summoning Deity Through Ritual Fasting -- 15. The Father, The Son, And The Holy Grail -- 16. On The Psychology Of Legend -- Section Four: The Analysis Of American Folklore -- 17. Here I Sit - A Study Of American Latrinalia -- 18. On Elephantasy And Elephanticide -- 19. The Number Three In American Culture -- 20. Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection Of The Future Orientation In American Worldview -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

Mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Bloody Mary in the Mirror is an expedition into psychoanalytic folklore techniques and constitutes a giant step towards realizing the potential Freud's work promises for folklore studies.

Focusing on the topic of circumventing custom, this book places special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden on the sabbath.

Office copier folklore-those tattered sheets of cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, and crude jokes that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere-is the subject of this innovative study. this type of folklore represents a major form of tradition in modern America, and the authors have compiled this raw data for scholarship-and entertainment. These creations of the Paperwork Empire comment on topics and problems that concern all urban Americans. No one and nothing escapes their raunchy wit and sarcasm. Bosses, ethnic groups, minorities, the sexes, alternative lifestyles, politics, welfare, government workers, the law, bureaucracy, and even "The Night Before Christmas" all come under fire to form a biting, and hilarious, commentary on modern American society.

Folklorist Alan Dundes offers a radical analysis of caste in India, focusing on the rationale underlying the customs surrounding untouchability.