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Introduction
All the ways lead to worldview in humanistic research; few humanists gel there.
Those humbled by the experience can say so: let Alan Dundes speak first. The quest of
cultural worldview, of a group's views and values, goes a long and obscure way from Ihe
explicit to the implicit, along what people say and do, and along what they know, think and
feel withollt knowing thaI they do. Worldview is what folklorists gel on tape and paper,
but cannot play or transcribe, only infer and speculalc aoout. It
Dundcs regrets that they will nOI try either. The study of folklore in literature and
culture, he reaffinns, implies "identification" and "interpretation":
The first is objective and empirical; the second is subjective and
specul