Children's Folklore : A Source Book / edited by Brian Sutton-Smith ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1999Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (392 pages): ill., digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780874213577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 398/.083 21
LOC classification:
  • GR43.C4 C45 1999
  • GR475 .C49 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: What is children's folklore? -- Who are the folklorists of childhood? - Overview: History of children's folklore -- The complexity of children's folklore -- The transmmission of children's folklore -- Overview: Methods in children's folklore -- Double dutch and double cameras: studying the transmission of culture in an urban school yard -- Children's games and gaming -- Methodological problems of collecting folklore from children -- Overview: Children's folklore concerns -- Songs, poems, and rhymes -- Riddles -- Tales and legends -- Teases and pranks -- Overview: Settings and activities -- Children's lore in school and playgrounds -- Material folk culture of children -- Children's folklore in residential institutions: Summer camps, boarding schools, hospitals, and custodial facilities -- The past in the present: Theoretical directions for children's folklore -- Bibliography of children's folklore.
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Originally published: New York : Garland, 1995, in series: Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 647.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What is children's folklore? -- Who are the folklorists of childhood? - Overview: History of children's folklore -- The complexity of children's folklore -- The transmmission of children's folklore -- Overview: Methods in children's folklore -- Double dutch and double cameras: studying the transmission of culture in an urban school yard -- Children's games and gaming -- Methodological problems of collecting folklore from children -- Overview: Children's folklore concerns -- Songs, poems, and rhymes -- Riddles -- Tales and legends -- Teases and pranks -- Overview: Settings and activities -- Children's lore in school and playgrounds -- Material folk culture of children -- Children's folklore in residential institutions: Summer camps, boarding schools, hospitals, and custodial facilities -- The past in the present: Theoretical directions for children's folklore -- Bibliography of children's folklore.

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