Talk:Alan Dundes

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Ok, there needs to be more about his work in this article. I was a little appalled that the details of his death were present, but hardly anything abou what he did during his lifetime. --67.180.143.131 05:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

The last paragraph, althought entertaining, is not encyclopedic in style. It should be changed. --130.243.207.208 07:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

reads like an obituary Crimpshrine27 12:37, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Pretty poor article. For instance, it fails to mention that he was Jewish and wrote with some objectivity about Jewish folklore such as the evil eye and "The Sabbath Elevator." See L. A. Times obituary for note that he was Jewish. 70.36.137.19 (talk) 05:16, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

I added that he considered himself Jewish, with an obituary citation.75.101.104.17 (talk) 04:10, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Errors of commission and omission

In the "Teaching Methods" section, this occurs: "The final project for this course required that each student collect, identify, and analyze 40 items of folklore. All of this material (about 500,000 items) is housed and cataloged in the Berkeley Folklore Archives." I took the course in 1965 or so. We didn't collect 40 items. Our final project was different. Each student was to interview someone from another culture and write a paper about some aspect of that culture (my informant was a student from Nigeria). The papers were archived as stated. Because the assignment of dealing with 40 items wasn't given every time Dundes taught the course, I believe that the statement in the text is a misrepresentation and should be deleted. Anyway, it's hard to see how that much detail is needed.

Something Dundes is noted for is missing. He famously made a study of graffiti and consequently became known as "the man who saw the writing on the wall." I don't have a reference for this. Cognita (talk) 01:34, 27 October 2017 (UTC)