If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, 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.

The professor instead decided to invest it in the study of folklore. ) Every Man His Way: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. "A Study of Ethnic Slurs".

His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline. [citation needed] He wrote 12 books both academic and popular and edited or co-wrote two dozen more. Alan Dundes (September 8 1934 – March 30 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California Berkeley.