Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes (born September 8, 1934 in New York , † March 30, 2005 in Berkeley , California) was an American ethnologist and folklorist .
Life
Alan Dundes studied English philology at Yale University and then folklore at Indiana University . In 1962 he received his doctorate with the dissertation on The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales , in which he tried to continue the method of Vladimir Propp . Dundes then worked as a lecturer in English at the University of Kansas . In 1963 he became a private lecturer and in 1965 an associate professor for anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1968 the university appointed him to the chair of anthropology and folklore .
In his more than 300 publications in the form of essays, books, reviews and lectures on countless topics of folklore, Dundes combined the methods of cultural studies , ethnology , text analysis and especially psychoanalysis .
Until his death, Dundes was a member of the American Folklore Society (sometimes also its chairman), the California Folklore Society (sometimes also its chairman), the International Society for Folk Narrative Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
His book Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore (1984, German you me too! ) Became more widely known, with a multitude of scatological examples from letterpress to the kitchen, with proverbs and swear words the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud up to National Socialism an analogous German national character is proven and asserted with a multitude of examples.
additional
- Dundes was interviewed for the documentary The God Who Wasn't There (2005).
Prizes and awards
- 1962: Chicago Folklore Prize
- 1966–1967: Guggenheim grant
- 1972–1973: NEH Senior Fellow
- 1976: Chicago Folklore Prize
- 1993: Pitrè award in gold
- 1994: Distinguished Teaching Award
Works (selection)
- The morphology of North American Indian folktales. Helsinki 1964 (Folklore Fellows' communications 195).
- The study of folklore. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1965.
- Folk ideas as units of worldview. Arlington, Va. 1971.
- Analytic essays in folklore. The Hague et al. a. 1975 (Studies in folklore 2).
- The art of mixing metaphors. A folkloristic interpretation of the Netherlandish proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Helsinki 1981 (Folklore Fellows' communications 230).
- Cracking jokes. Studies of sick humor cycles & stereotypes. Berkeley, Calif. 1987.
- Essays in folklore theory and method. Madras 1990.
- From Game to war and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore. Lexington, Ky. 1997.
- Holy Writ as Oral Lit. The Bible as folklore. Lanham, Md. 1999.
- Me too! The deep-rooted in the German psyche. Beltz Weinheim and Basel 1985. ISBN 3 407 85053 0
literature
- Vilmos Voigt : Dundes, Alan. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen Vol. 3 (1981), Col. 946-948.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alan Dundes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Detail page of the University of California, Berkeley ( Memento from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dundes, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ethnologist and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 2005 |
| Place of death | Berkeley |