Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

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.