Alan dundes biography

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Alan Dundes (September 8, 1934 – March 30, 2005) 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.

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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.

Career

Dundes attended Yale University, where he studied English and met his wife Carolyn.

Sure that he would be drafted upon completion of his studies, Dundes joined the ROTC and trained to become a naval communications officer. When it turned out that the ship he was to be posted to, stationed in the Bay of Naples, already had a communications officer, Dundes asked what else that ship might need, not wanting to give u