Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline. He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more. One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than the other senses...
american-educator courses folklore involving original paper require research term
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.