Contributors
John Bendix, who received his doctorate at Indiana University in 1987, is a political scientist with strong interests in folklore and culture. After more than a decade of teaching at small liberal arts colleges in the U. S., Bendix now works in Germany as an educator, researcher, and specialized translator.
Regina Bendix is Professor of Volkskunde/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Among her recent books are In Search of Authenticity (1997) and, co-edited with Herman Roodenburg, Managing Ethnicity: Perspectives from Folklore Studies, History and Anthropology (2000).
Alan Dundes is Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been teaching folklore courses at Berkeley since 1963. His recent publications include Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore (1999) and Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics (2002).
David J. Hufford is Professor and Interim Chair of Medical Humanities and Professor of Behavioral Science and Family and Community Medicine. He directs the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania, and he is an adjunct professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary interest is belief study as applied to health care and to folklore theory.
Utz Jeggle retired in 2001 from the Ludwig-Uhland Institute at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he taught Empirische Kulturwissenschaft for thirty years. In addition to applying psychoanalytic approaches to the study of culture, he has worked and published in the area of village micro histories and in questions of fieldwork methodology.
Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore and longtime chairperson of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont. He is the founding editor of Proverbium and has published widely on proverbs in the United States and Europe. His work is concentrated on paremiology and folk narrative research on an international basis. [End Page 113]
Hagar Salamon is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore, and a senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, both at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her most recent book is The Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia (University of California Press). [End Page 114]
