Description: A novel treatment of the biblical flood myth in terms of male pregnancy is the penultimate essay, while the concluding article proposes an ingeniously imaginative interpretation of the underpinnings of anti-Semitism.
Brief description: Alan Dundes, professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist.
Review Quotes:
From his earliest work to the present, Dundes's scholarship has always been thorough, creative, and accessible to readers from a range of disciplines.
-- "Jay Mechling, University of California, Davis"