Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes Review

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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes ReviewDundes's understanding of folklore is not only broad in conception, but also internally mixed, involuted in a way like a finely-woven sweater. The involution is not from confusion or lack of command; but rather an intellectual, methodological, and subject matter circuitry which makes for illumination and depth of insight and relevance. This is why Bronner put the time in to collecting, organizing, and writing knowledgeable introductory essays to the 20 articles divided into the two sections of (1) Structure and Analysis and (2) Worldview and Identity.
Dundes's conception of folklore and practice of exploration of it in all its forms obviously is not confined to academia or the study of remote, dying aboriginal societies. This perspective was not only by intention and inclination, but also articulated in his self-conscious theory of folklore and frequent lectures on it. "Dundes did not think of traditions [the central subject of folklore] as relics of the past and often took to the lectern to show that folklore was very much a part of the modern technological world...[he was] the champion of the modern view that folklore was an artistic process rather than a dusty artifact...It is not something that is relegated to primitivized others--historically or socially--but rather a behavioral pattern that everyone exhibits." Dundes not only championed this modern view, but played a major role in expressing it and legitimizing it.
Dundes (d. 2005) was ahead of his time in his understanding and promulgation of folklore. His conception and activity dovetailed with the present-day interest among scholars, social observers, those in the relatively new field of cultural studies, and such in popular culture with its fetishes, tribalism, rites (e. g., shopping), and other features. Modern culture--postmodern culture--does not make any sense without applying principles, terms, etc., from folklore to it. Dundes instinctively realized this with respect to any culture. For him, folklore was not simply the subject matter of a discipline, but an approach to the world; in fact, a necessary means of gaining a meaningful, pertinent understanding of it.
"The body of material Dundes worked on was, broadly stated, culture...Folklore is prime evidence of culture, indeed of humanity." Folklore is central to individual and group identity, behavior, manner of development, and other elements found in any individual, group, or culture. Dundes uniquely and exceptionally embodied and manifest folklore as a prime contemporary field of the humanities.Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes Overview

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