Alan Dundes, Ph. D. is a Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at the University of California Berkeley and an expert on a wide variety of topics including urban folklore, cockfighting, proverbs, jokes, North American Indian folktales, and fairy tales. In 1993, he became the first American to win the Pitre Prize's Sigillo d'Oro, a life-time achievement award. The Pitre Prize is the top international prize in folklore and ethnography. He has written more than 250 journal articles and 13 books, including The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales, Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore and Fables of the Ancients: Folklore in the Qur'an. He edited Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth and The Flood Myth.

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