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? ? INDEX
Abrahams, R. D. 16, 174, 226
activation 62
active and passive bearers 50, 57
Addams, J. 241, 248
adolescent, adolescence 206, 215, 216, 289
adult authority 237
adventure playgrounds 245, 249
aesthetics 62
African American children 85, 86, 90
Ainsworth, C. H. 217
alliance: in narrative analysis 196
ambiguity 216
American children's folklore 16. See also
children's folklore
American Children's Folklore 151
American Non-Singing Games 15
Ames, L. B. 196
analytic approach 261
annual party 281
anthropology 64
antithesis 22, 302, 304, 305
applied folklore 290
appropriation 302
April Fool's Day 216-17, 219
Armstrong, R. 267
art: children's 265
artifacts: of play 254, 256
assemblies 283
Association for the Study of Play, The
(TASP) 16, 68, 318
attribution: and data 124
authenticity 307, 308
autograph rhyme 158
"The Babysitter" 208, 209
Bachelard, G. 229
Bakhtin, M. 303
"bald on record" 222, 223
ball games 148, 153
"barring-out" 236
basic rules 98
Bateson, G. 67, 70, 77, 109, 275
Bauman, R. 51, 298
Beasley, R. R. 247
Bennett, J. 248
Bergen, F. 247
Bergmann, T. 285
Beresin, A. Richman 63, 69-71, 72, 237
Bettelheim, B. 199
Big Mac 82, 83, 85
bildgdtor (picture riddles) 180
binary character 274
Birdwhistell, R. 85
Blacking, J. 164
"Bloody Fingers" 203, 205
boarding schools 273, 281, 283, 285, 286
Bolton, H. 60, 150
Botvin, G. 196
"The Boyfriend's Death" 209
boys: play of 11, 111, 196, 206, 208, 220,
221, 227, 228, 232, 237, 242, 266,
270, 272
Brant, S. 256
Breslerman, M. 207
Brewster, P. 15
Bronner, S. J. 16, 151, 278
Brown, P. 222, 223
Brunvand, J. 258,275
Burch, W. R. 279
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? ? camp stories 208
catch questions, routines 16, 149
Caughey, J. 149
cautionary tales 278
Cavollo, D. 240
cerebral child 28, 29, 167
chants 83, 152
childhood 4, 6, 16, 255, 296, 297, 298, 307
childhood underground 195
childlore 27, 271
children's folklore: defined 3, 6, 11, 13, 14,
16, 19, 26, 27, 39, 70, 91, 231
248, 294, 298, 307
Children's Games in the Street and
Playground 14
Children's Humor 30, 224
Children's Playground Movement 238,
239, 240
children's riddling 141, 166, 167
Children's Singing Games 12
children's stories 195
Children Tell Stories 195
clandestine folklore 302
clapping games 148, 153, 295
classification: of objects 269
classification: in riddles 176, 177
Cohen, D. S. 280, 287
collecting: children's folklore 121, 122,
193, 194
collecting: from adults 123
collectors: children as 137, 138
commercial culture 263, 264
community leisure 243
communication: in play 110, 141, 144,
190, 277
comparative method 261
competence: in riddling 161, 165, 185,
189, 190
competition 108, 112, 113, 114
complexity: of children's folklore 24, 44
composition 57
computer story 202
confidentiality: in fieldwork 125
conflict: in children's narrative 197
conservatism and creativity 41, 42, 43
contest 64
contestation 302
context 9, 44, 45, 51, 89, 108, 113, 257,
271, 289
contexts of justification 103
control group 136
cooperation 108
"Coping with the Here and Now" 259
"Coping with the Unknown" 259
counting-out: rhymes 16, 152
Crandall, R. 238, 239
creativity: and children 45
crime(s) of writing 295
Cropsey (legend) variants 207
Csikszentmihalyi, M. 262, 269, 288
Culin, S. 257, 258
Cullman, E. 256
cultural approach 261
cultural evolutionary theory 14, 15, 16,
29, 45
cultural performances 275, 279, 281
cultural productions 274
culture: children's 295
"at the border" 275, 283
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? ? enculturational dimensions 58
equipment: play 241, 242, 244
Erickson, E. 77, 245
escape: in narrative 196
ethics: issues 133
ethics: in research 121-139
ethnicity 306
ethnography: video 75-91
ethnography of speaking 141, 166
ethnographic observation and studies
133, 301
European-American girls 90
Evans, D. 164
evasive answer 305
experiment: as methodology 135, 136, 137
expressive culture 273
fabrications 214, 216, 282
face-threatening acts (FTA) 222
face-to-face interaction 108
Fagan, R. 67
failure 302, 304
fairy tale 199
fakelore 208
family 226
fancy 6, 7
fantasy 195, 196
fatal initiation 206
faulty memory 56
feminization of schools 236
fieldwork 16, 63, 77, 78, 89, 31, 288
fight, fighting 134, 232
film: ethnographic 77
Fine, G. A. 63, 72, 73
Finnegan, R. 57
fire play 279
Fischer, M. M. J. 306
folk arts 264
folk costume 280
folk culture 252, 255, 263, 269, 270, 274,
286, 289
folk group 8, 9, 253, 286
folk objects 269
folk play 264
folk speech 276, 277, 283
folklore: as process 3
Folklore of American Children 16
folktale retelling 200
folktales: and children 199, 201, 210
forest play 279
Formanek-Brunell, M. 255
formulaic narration 200
Foucault, M. 5
foursquare 93-119
frame: play 101, 108, 109, 111, 276
framing (s) 101, 108, 109-12
friend: adult as 128, 129, 131, 134
Freud, S. 30
funny-scary story 202, 204, 205, 210
galumphing 143
gambling 64
game, games 11, 12, 13, 22, 27, 43, 44, 64,
66, 67, 70-72, 75-77, 78, 81, 86,
88, 93, 101, 108, 142, 147, 150,
152, 153, 228, 237, 243, 244, 246,
247, 257, 279, 294, 300, 301
game rule, rules 93, 94, 99, 105, 108
Games and Songs of American Children
12,43
Games of New Zealand Children 15
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