Folklorist Alan Dundes asserts that by basing their approach on psychoanalytic theory , neither Dollard nor Abrahams considers that the Dozens may be native to Africa .
Dollard does not rule it out .
Folklorist Alan Dundes asserts that by basing their approach on psychoanalytic theory , neither Dollard nor Abrahams considers that the Dozens may be native to Africa , although Dollard does not rule it out .