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Alan Dundes Quotes

American - Educator | September 8, 1934 - March 30, 2005

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Life Nothing Seems Transitions

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Future Time Past Present American

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

Future Past Disregard Tend

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.

Past New Try Trends Out Belong

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.

Future Great Light Culture Questions

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Moment Present Trouble Present Moment

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Truth Progress Believe Joke Almost

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

Grateful Find Professional Never

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.

Believe Meaning Audience Something

Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo.

Discussion Forbidden Taboo Outlet

There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B.

Identity Self Group Without Other

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.

Identity Important Group Way Social

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