Dundes, Alan (1934–2005)

US anthropologist and folklorist. After gaining his PhD, he went into academia. He did important work on the history and, mostly psychoanalytic, interpretation of folklore as diverse as Cinderella, sick jokes, and the Flood.

He was born in New York City and attended Indiana University. He joined the University of California at Berkeley faculty in 1963 and his first book was titled The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales (1964).