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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore,
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Anthropology Course Folklore Form Introductory
he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
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Carry Fieldwork Learn Public Research Something
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
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Academic Course Folklorist Identity Many Taught Year
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.
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Again Culture Lens Light Look Once Our Question Tactic Try Unreasonable
I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
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Analyze Folklore Genre Major Minor Show Student Try
We can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
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Emphasis Fat Future Great Place See
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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Country Formula Future Involve Mention One Past Present Time Tripartite Worldview
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
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Country Enjoy Moment Often Present Trouble
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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Combine Expectation Future Impossible Nothing Notion Orientation Progress
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
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Ancestor Asian Characteristic County Culture Example Filial Grandparent Piety Really Resonate Worship
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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Country Disregard Future Past Penchant Tend
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
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Advantage Colleague Ethnic Family Folklore Great Knowledge Many National Occupational Regional Religious Student Traditional
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Appear Bright Faster Hera Light People Some Sound Speak Traveler
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
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Incorporation Initiation Life Nothing Seem Series Transition
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.
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Belong Determine Direction Frequent Lease Likely Past Poll Require Taken Trend
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars.
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Course Folklore Graduate Include Seminar Series Student Take

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