if people reacted strongly to what he had to say, he had probably hit a nerve and was probably on to something.
taking his fellow folklorists to task for being weak on theory. In his opinion, the presentation of data, no matter how thorough, is useless without the development and application of theory to that data. It is not enough to simply collect, one must do something with what one has collected
"my professional goals are to make sense of nonsense, find a rationale for the irrational and seek to make the unconscious conscious."
"The problem is that the fundamental question of meaning is never raised or discussed at all," he wrote in "Interpreting Folklore." "Why should a particular custom or belief like the evil eye exist in the first place?"
When Time magazine ran a story on his paper, noting that Dundes considered football “a ritualized form of homosexual rape,” enraged football fans sent the professor death threats.
Dundes presumably could have avoided controversy if he had stuck to collecting, classifying and describing jokes, folk tales and superstitions. It was the analysis that always got him into hot water.
Alan Dundes, folklore scholar
Jumping the broom is a phrase and custom relating to wedding ceremonies "many diverse cultures, those of Africa − Europe including Scotland, Hungry and Gypsy culture – include brooms at wedding rituals." [1]Particularly by the Romani gypsy people of the United Kingdom[2] and “Evidence showing the wedding custom was practiced by gypsies in England, Scotland.”[3] and Wales[4] as well as African-American and other groups.
[Danita] admits there is no recognized documentation suggesting that ethnic groups in Ghana, who were prominent in the Atlantic Slave Trade, ever jumped over the broom.[13] Still, Green's research implies that the ceremony used today stems from traditional rites of maturation still practiced in Africa. Danita Rountree Green, in her book Broom Jumping: A Celebration of Love
Dundes, Alan. "'Jumping the Broom': On the Origin and Meaning of an African American Wedding Custom", The Journal of American Folklore
"...argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people", C.W. Sullivan III, "Jumping the Broom": A Further Consideration of the Origins of an African American Wedding Custom
Welsh Gypsy, Welsh Gypsies, Welsh Romanies, Kale, Wales
For some Gypsies landing on Britain's shores, was Cymru their Romani-llan ? Were they accepted by most and rejected by few as portrayed in the film Eldra - See More
The Romanichal and the Kale
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