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Alan Dundes (1934–2005)

Autor/a de The Myth of the Birth of the Hero

42+ obres 1,363 Membres 15 Ressenyes

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Anthropologist and folklorist Alan Dundes was born in 1934 in New York City. He received his BA in English in 1955 and his MAT in English in 1958, both from Yale University. He received his Ph.D in Folklore from Indiana University in 1962 and in 1963 he joined the teaching staff at the University mostra'n més of California, Berkley. He wrote over 250 journal articles and12 books and co-wrote more than 20 other books. In 1993, he became the first American to win the Pitre Prize's Sigillo d'Oro, which is an international life-time achievement award in folklore and ethnography. He died of a heart attack on March 30, 2004 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Alan Dundes

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (1909) 206 exemplars
The Study of Folklore (1965) 153 exemplars
The Vampire: A Casebook (1656) 95 exemplars
Cinderella: A Casebook (1982) 94 exemplars
Interpreting Folklore (1980) 62 exemplars
The Flood Myth (1988) 28 exemplars
Folklore Matters (1989) 24 exemplars
The Evil Eye: A Casebook (1981) 23 exemplars
The Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook (1996) 17 exemplars
The Cockfight: A Casebook (1994) 11 exemplars
Analytic essays in folklore (1979) 4 exemplars
Varia folklorica (1978) 1 exemplars

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Morphology of the Folktale (1928)algunes edicions806 exemplars
The Folk Art of Java (The Asia Collection) (1994) — Pròleg, algunes edicions9 exemplars
Contemporary legend : a folklore bibliography (1993) — Prefaci — 2 exemplars

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Some interesting material and then some not, some funny, some boring. More boring academic explanation than material.
 
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Newmans2001 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 10, 2023 |
A collection of fairly recent anthropological writings regarding the various flood myths of the world. Great research material for comparative mythology or comparative religion if you prefer to call it that.
 
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Chickenman | Sep 13, 2018 |
Classic textbook on Folklore studies, with journal articles as exemplars of various facets of the field.
 
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AdocentynLibrary | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | May 27, 2014 |

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