In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the … - Alan Dundes

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One of the things I do know about investment from around the world and job creators: they won't come to British Columbia if our attitude is well, "no," or all of our processes are just going to be a way of making sure you can't get to "yes. " They'll just go somewhere else. Those jobs will be somewhere else.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

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