Interesse uit de Verenigde Staten voor mijn boek!

Daniel W. VanArsdale is de belangrijste en grootste verzamelaar van kettingbrieven in de V.S. Hij verzamelde op 25 jaar 1000 kettingbrieven en bestudeerde ze grondig. VanArsdale is een gepensioneerde wiskundige. Hij vermeldt mijn boek in zijn uitgebreide internetstudie ‘Chain Letter Evolution’, die ook in Europa geregeld wordt geraadpleegd. Over mijn boek, schrijft hij het volgende…

The author studied 2065 chain letters and their contemporary equivalent: 128 chain emails and 40 chain posts (on social media). The chapter on chain letters is the most extensive. It discusses 36 different letters, six types of chain letters, collected by her father Mathieu Driessen between 1986 and 2000: religious, financial, funny and practical letters, as well as chain letters for children and peace chain letters. A Powerful Prayer of Emperor Charles from the 16th century may be one of the oldest. The strength of this book is, among other things, the display of numerous comments from people who received these letters - their fear is enormous - and also from specialists in the fields of religion, psychology, economy and law.’
Zie: http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html

Wat schreef hij in zijn mails?

‘I think much can be learned by having a large collection of closely related folklore material. Your father's collection is remarkable, and very likely the most thorough assemblage of chain letters ever... I think your father's collection is very important, and I am glad you have written about it. Some people might have discarded it all. It is also significant that your father obtained letters from the senders. No such effort has been made before that I know of…

…There has long been an interest in chain letters by folklorists, but none of them collected very many. Even the famous folklore archive at the University of California at Berkeley, supervised by the late Dr. Dundes, did not have many chain letters.’

Bedankt, thanks Dan!


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