"
Lore and Language 7:20-24.
Lore and Language 7:20-24.
Childens - Folklore
?
lore in the Elementary Schools.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Center.
Trout, Lawana
1977 "The Student as Folklorist. " English Journal 66:83-87.
Tuan, Yi-Fu
1977 Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press.
Tucker, Elizabeth
1976 Personal communication with Gary Alan Fine.
1977 "Tradition and Creativity in the Storytelling of Pre-Adolescent Girls. " Ph. D.
dissertation, Indiana University.
1980a "The Dramatization of Children's Narratives. " Western Folklore 39:184-
97.
1980b "Concepts of Space in Children's Narratives. " In Folklore on Two Conti-
nents: Essays in Honor of Linda Digh, 19-25. Bloomington, Ind. : Trickster.
1981a "Danger and Control in Children's Storytelling. " Arv: The Scandinavian
Yearbook of Folklore 37:141-46.
1981b "The Cruel Mother in Stories Told by Pre-Adolescent Girls. " International
Folklore Review 1:66-70.
1992 "Texts, Lies and Videotape: Can Oral Tales Survive? " Children's Folklore
Review 15:25-32.
Turner, Ian
1969 Cinderella Dressed in Yella. Melbourne: Heinemann.
Turner, Ian, June Factor, and Wendy Lowenstein
*1978 Cinderella Dressed in Yella. 2d ed. Richmond, Australia: Heinemann.
Turner, Roy (ed. )
1974 Ethnomethodology: Selected Readings. Baltimore, Md. : Penguin.
Turner, Victor
1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell
University Press.
1974a "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage. " In New
Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by J. Helm, 4-20. Seattle: Uni-
versity of Washington Press.
1974b Dramas, Fields and Metaphors. Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press.
1974c From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play. New York: Per-
forming Arts Journal Press.
Tylor, Edward B.
1871 Primitive Culture. Reprint. London: John Murray, 1929.
1879 "Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of Games. " Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute 9:23-30.
Umiker-Sebeok, D. Jean
1979 "Preschool Children's Intraconversational Narratives. " Journal of Child
Language 6:91-109.
Upadhyaya, Hari S.
1970 "Indian Family Structure and the Bhojpuri Riddles. " Folklore 81:115-31.
Van Gennep, Arnold
1960 The Rites of Passage. Translated by M. B. Vizedom and G. C. Chaffee. Chi-
cago: University of Chicago Press.
Vidich, Arthur
1955 "Participant Observation and the Collection and Interpretation of Data. "
American Journal of Sociology 60:354-60.
Virtanen, Leea
*1978 "Children's Lore. " Studia Fennica 22. Helsinki: Suomalisen Kirjallisuuden
Seura. [Excellent study of the various lore of Finnish children's play groups. ]
Vlach, John
*1971 "One Black Eye and Other Horrors: A Case for the Humorous Anti-Leg-
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? ? end. " Indiana Folklore 4:95-140. [Excellent analysis of 144 legends told by
fifth graders in a single community. ]
Von Cranach, M.
1982 "The Psychological Study of Goal-directed Action: Basic Issues. " In The
Analysis of Action, edited by M. von Cranach and R. Harre, 35-73. Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press.
Von Glascoe, C. A.
1980 "The Work of Playing 'Redlight. '" In Play and Culture, edited by H. B.
Schwartzman, 228-30. West Point, N. Y. : Leisure.
Von Sydow, C. M.
1948 "Folktale Studies and Philology: Some Points of View. " Reprinted in The
Study of Folklore, edited by A. Dundes, 218-42. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. :
Prentice-Hall, 1965.
1971 Selected Papers in Folklore. New York: Arno Press.
Walter, J. A.
1977 "Critique of Sociological Studies of Approved Schools. " British Journal of
Criminology 17:361-69.
Ward, Colin
1978 The Child in the City. New York: Pantheon.
Wardetzsky, Kristin
1990 "The Structure and Interpretation of Fairytales Composed by Children. "
Journal of American Folklore 103:157-76.
Washington Post
1901 "For Work and Play. " September 15.
Watson, W.
1953 "Play Among Children in an East Coast Mining Community. " Folklore
64:397-410. [Good functional analysis of a community in Scotland. ]
Wax, Rosalie
1971 Doing Field Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary
1961 Unabridged, 2d ed. New York: Publishers Guild.
Weiner, Meryl
1970 "The Riddle Repertoire of a Massachusetts Elementary School. " Folklore
Forum 3:7-38.
Weir, Ruth
1962 Language in the Crib. The Hague: Mouton.
Wells, Patricia Atkinson
1988 "The Paradox of Functional Dysfunction in a Girl Scout Camp: Implica-
tions of Cultural Diversity for Achieving Organizational Goals. " In Inside
Organizations: Understanding the Human Dimension, edited by M. O. Jones,
M. D. Moore, and R. C. Snyder, 109-17. Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage.
Welsch, Roger L.
1966a "Nebraska Finger Games. " Western Folklore 25:173-94. [Collection of
fifty-three games, some with diagrams. ]
1966b A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press. [See "Children's Games, 281-306 (a fine example of the many short
sections on children's lore to be found in larger works on the folklore of spe-
cific places). ]
1974 "A Note on Practical Jokes. " Southern Folklore Quarterly 38:253-57.
Wesselski, Albert
1931 Versuch einer Theorie des Marchens. Reichenberg i. B.
West, Elliott
1983 "Heathens and Angels: Childhood in the Rocky Mountain Mining Towns. "
Western Historical Quarterly 14:145-64.
West, Elliott, and Paula Petrik (eds. )
367
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? ? 1992 Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas.
What Are We Doing To Our Children? Locked Up, Locked Out
1973 A film by CBS News. Color, 16 mm, thirty minutes.
Wheelock, A. K.
1984 "Games in Dutch Art: Innocent Pleasures or Moral Exemplars. " Paper pre-
sented at conference on the Forms of Play in the Early Modern Period, Uni-
versity of Maryland.
White, William Allen
1946 The Autobiography of William Allen White. New York: Macmillan.
Whitt, J. Kenneth, and Norman M. Prentice
1977 "Cognitive Processes in the Development of Children's Enjoyment and Com-
prehension of Joking Riddles. " Developmental Psychology 3:129-36.
Whitten, Norman E. , Jr. , and John F. Szwed
1982 Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Free
Press.
Whyte, William Foote
1955 Street Corner Society. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Whyte, William H.
1980 The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Washington, D. C. : Conservation
Foundation.
Widdowson, John D. A.
1971 "The Bogeyman: Some Preliminary Observations on Frightening Figures. "
Folklore 82:99-115.
1972 "Figures Used for Threatening Children, 1: A Newfoundland Example.
"
Lore and Language 7:20-24.
1977 If You Don't Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland. Social and
Economic Studies, no. 21. Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memo-
rial University of Newfoundland.
Wigginton, Eliot
1974 "A Reply to 'The Lesson of Foxfire. '" North Carolina Folklore Journal
22:35-41.
1980 Foxfire 6. Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday. [Predominantly toys and games
from Georgia, as collected and written up by high-school students. Many de-
tailed drawings and photographs. ]
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1932 Little House in the Big Woods. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
1935 Little House on the Prairie. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
1961 Little Town on the Prairie. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
Wilkinson, Paul F. (ed. )
1980 Innovation in Play Environments. New York: St. Martin's.
Willard, Nancy
1976 Simple Pictures Are Best. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Williams, Melvin D.
1981 On the Street Where I Lived. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Williams, Raymond
1979 Politics and Letters. London: Verso.
Williams, William Carlos
1951 The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York: New Direc-
tions.
1967 "Children's Games": Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. New York:
New Directions.
Williamson, Billie
1975 "Fun and Games of Mountain Children. " Kentucky Folklore Record 21 43-
55. [Good collection, but no analysis. ]
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? ? Willis, Paul
1977 Learning to Labour. London: Gower.
Wilson, A.
1980 "The Infancy of the History of Childhood: An Appraisal of Philippe Aries. "
History and Theory 19:132-53.
Wimbush, Erica, and Margaret Talbot (eds. )
1988 Relative Freedoms: Women and Leisure. Philadelphia: Open University
Press.
Winslow, David J.
1966a "An Introduction to Oral Tradition Among Children. " Keystone Folklore
Quarterly 11:43-58.
1966b "The Collecting of Children's Lore. " Keystone Folklore Quarterly 11:88-98.
1966c "An Annotated Collection of Children's Lore. " Keystone Folklore Quar-
terly 11:151-202. [The three articles above are collectively subtitled "Oral
Tradition Among Children in Central New York State" and provide an excel-
lent introduction to the subject. ]
1969 "Children's Derogatory Epithets. " Journal of American Folklore 82:255-
63.
Wintemberg, W. J. , and Katherine H. Wintemberg
1918 "Folklore from Grey County, Ontario. " Journal of American Folklore
31:121-22.
Withers, Carl A.
1946 Counting Out. New York: Oxford.
*1947a "Current Events in New York City Children's Folklore. " New York Folk-
lore Quarterly 3:212-22. [Very nice demonstration of the currency of children's
lore. ]
1947b Ready or Not, Here I Come. New York: Grosset and Dunlap.
1948 A Rocket in My Pocket: The Rhymes and Chants of Young Americans. New
York: Holt.
1963 Introduction to Games and Songs of American Children by W. W. Newell.
Reprint. New York: Dover.
1965 I Saw a Rocket Walk A Mile: Nonsense Tales, Chants, and Songs from Many
Lands. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
1974 A Treasury of Games, Riddles, Mystery Stunts, Tricks, Tongue Twisters,
Rhymes, Chants, Singing. New York: Grosset and Dunlap.
Withers, Carl, and Sula Benet
1954 The American Riddle Book. New York: Abelard-Schuman.
Wojtowicz, Carol
1975 "Play in Philadelphia. " Pennsylvania Folklife 24:17-23.
Wolfenstein, Martha
1951 "A Phase in the Development of Children's Sense of Humor. " Psychoana-
lytic Study of the Child 6:336-50.
1953 "Children's Understanding of Jokes. " Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
9:162-73.
* 1954 Children's Humor: A Psychological Analysis. Reprint. Bloomington: Indi-
ana University Press, 1978. [Classic analysis of how American children reveal
their anxieties through their jokes and riddles. ]
1955 "Jack and the Beanstalk: An American Version. " In Childhood in Contem-
porary Cultures, edited by M. Mead and M. Wolfenstein, 243-45. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Worth, Sol, and John Adair
1972 Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and An-
thropology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Wuellner, Lance H.
1979 "Forty Guidelines for Playground Design. " Journal of Leisure Research
369
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? ? 11:4-14.
Yates, Norris
1951 "Children's Folk Plays in Western Oregon. " Western Folklore 10:55-62.
Yawkey, T. D. , and A. D. Pellegrini
1984 Child's Play: Developmental and Applied. Hillsdale, N. J. : Lawrence Erlbaum.
Yoffie, Leah R.
1947 "Three Generations of Children's Singing Games in St. Louis. " Journal of
American Folklore 60:1-51. [Interesting survey touching on three periods
(1895-1900, 1914, and 1944). Seventy-one items, with presence in each pe-
riod noted. ]
Yohe, Charles
1950 "Observations on an Adolescent Folkway. " Psychoanalytic Review 37:79-
81.
Young, Katherine
1993 Bodylore. Publication of the American Folklore Society. Nashville: Univer-
sity of Tennessee Press.
Young, Monique
1981 "Drinking Games: A Survey. " M. A. thesis, University of California, Berke-
ley.
Yukic, Thomas S.
1975 "Niagara River Playground: The Allen Avenue Gang, 1925-1946. " New
York Folklore 1:211-28.
Zerner, Charles J.
1977 "The Street Hearth of Play. " Landscape 22:19-30.
Zeitlin, Steven J. , Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker
1982 A Celebration of American Family Folklore. New York: Pantheon Books.
Zigler, Edward, Jacob Levine, and Laurence Gould
1966 "Cognitive Processes in the Development of Children's Appreciation of
Humor. " Child Development 37:507-18.
Zipes, Jack
1979 Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. Aus-
tin: University of Texas Press.
1983 Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and
the Process of Civilization. New York: Wildman. London: Heinemann.
Zumwalt, Rosemary Levy
1972 "On the Lips of Little Girls: A Collection and Analysis of Little Girls' Oral
Tradition. " Senior thesis in anthropology, University of California at Santa
Cruz.
*1976 "Plain and Fancy: A Content Analysis of Children's Jokes Dealing With
Adult Sexuality. " Western Folklore 35:258-67. [A brief article that almost
immediately became a classic. ]
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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.
Trout, Lawana
1977 "The Student as Folklorist. " English Journal 66:83-87.
Tuan, Yi-Fu
1977 Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press.
Tucker, Elizabeth
1976 Personal communication with Gary Alan Fine.
1977 "Tradition and Creativity in the Storytelling of Pre-Adolescent Girls. " Ph. D.
dissertation, Indiana University.
1980a "The Dramatization of Children's Narratives. " Western Folklore 39:184-
97.
1980b "Concepts of Space in Children's Narratives. " In Folklore on Two Conti-
nents: Essays in Honor of Linda Digh, 19-25. Bloomington, Ind. : Trickster.
1981a "Danger and Control in Children's Storytelling. " Arv: The Scandinavian
Yearbook of Folklore 37:141-46.
1981b "The Cruel Mother in Stories Told by Pre-Adolescent Girls. " International
Folklore Review 1:66-70.
1992 "Texts, Lies and Videotape: Can Oral Tales Survive? " Children's Folklore
Review 15:25-32.
Turner, Ian
1969 Cinderella Dressed in Yella. Melbourne: Heinemann.
Turner, Ian, June Factor, and Wendy Lowenstein
*1978 Cinderella Dressed in Yella. 2d ed. Richmond, Australia: Heinemann.
Turner, Roy (ed. )
1974 Ethnomethodology: Selected Readings. Baltimore, Md. : Penguin.
Turner, Victor
1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell
University Press.
1974a "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage. " In New
Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by J. Helm, 4-20. Seattle: Uni-
versity of Washington Press.
1974b Dramas, Fields and Metaphors. Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press.
1974c From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play. New York: Per-
forming Arts Journal Press.
Tylor, Edward B.
1871 Primitive Culture. Reprint. London: John Murray, 1929.
1879 "Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of Games. " Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute 9:23-30.
Umiker-Sebeok, D. Jean
1979 "Preschool Children's Intraconversational Narratives. " Journal of Child
Language 6:91-109.
Upadhyaya, Hari S.
1970 "Indian Family Structure and the Bhojpuri Riddles. " Folklore 81:115-31.
Van Gennep, Arnold
1960 The Rites of Passage. Translated by M. B. Vizedom and G. C. Chaffee. Chi-
cago: University of Chicago Press.
Vidich, Arthur
1955 "Participant Observation and the Collection and Interpretation of Data. "
American Journal of Sociology 60:354-60.
Virtanen, Leea
*1978 "Children's Lore. " Studia Fennica 22. Helsinki: Suomalisen Kirjallisuuden
Seura. [Excellent study of the various lore of Finnish children's play groups. ]
Vlach, John
*1971 "One Black Eye and Other Horrors: A Case for the Humorous Anti-Leg-
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? ? end. " Indiana Folklore 4:95-140. [Excellent analysis of 144 legends told by
fifth graders in a single community. ]
Von Cranach, M.
1982 "The Psychological Study of Goal-directed Action: Basic Issues. " In The
Analysis of Action, edited by M. von Cranach and R. Harre, 35-73. Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press.
Von Glascoe, C. A.
1980 "The Work of Playing 'Redlight. '" In Play and Culture, edited by H. B.
Schwartzman, 228-30. West Point, N. Y. : Leisure.
Von Sydow, C. M.
1948 "Folktale Studies and Philology: Some Points of View. " Reprinted in The
Study of Folklore, edited by A. Dundes, 218-42. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. :
Prentice-Hall, 1965.
1971 Selected Papers in Folklore. New York: Arno Press.
Walter, J. A.
1977 "Critique of Sociological Studies of Approved Schools. " British Journal of
Criminology 17:361-69.
Ward, Colin
1978 The Child in the City. New York: Pantheon.
Wardetzsky, Kristin
1990 "The Structure and Interpretation of Fairytales Composed by Children. "
Journal of American Folklore 103:157-76.
Washington Post
1901 "For Work and Play. " September 15.
Watson, W.
1953 "Play Among Children in an East Coast Mining Community. " Folklore
64:397-410. [Good functional analysis of a community in Scotland. ]
Wax, Rosalie
1971 Doing Field Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary
1961 Unabridged, 2d ed. New York: Publishers Guild.
Weiner, Meryl
1970 "The Riddle Repertoire of a Massachusetts Elementary School. " Folklore
Forum 3:7-38.
Weir, Ruth
1962 Language in the Crib. The Hague: Mouton.
Wells, Patricia Atkinson
1988 "The Paradox of Functional Dysfunction in a Girl Scout Camp: Implica-
tions of Cultural Diversity for Achieving Organizational Goals. " In Inside
Organizations: Understanding the Human Dimension, edited by M. O. Jones,
M. D. Moore, and R. C. Snyder, 109-17. Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage.
Welsch, Roger L.
1966a "Nebraska Finger Games. " Western Folklore 25:173-94. [Collection of
fifty-three games, some with diagrams. ]
1966b A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press. [See "Children's Games, 281-306 (a fine example of the many short
sections on children's lore to be found in larger works on the folklore of spe-
cific places). ]
1974 "A Note on Practical Jokes. " Southern Folklore Quarterly 38:253-57.
Wesselski, Albert
1931 Versuch einer Theorie des Marchens. Reichenberg i. B.
West, Elliott
1983 "Heathens and Angels: Childhood in the Rocky Mountain Mining Towns. "
Western Historical Quarterly 14:145-64.
West, Elliott, and Paula Petrik (eds. )
367
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? ? 1992 Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850-1950. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas.
What Are We Doing To Our Children? Locked Up, Locked Out
1973 A film by CBS News. Color, 16 mm, thirty minutes.
Wheelock, A. K.
1984 "Games in Dutch Art: Innocent Pleasures or Moral Exemplars. " Paper pre-
sented at conference on the Forms of Play in the Early Modern Period, Uni-
versity of Maryland.
White, William Allen
1946 The Autobiography of William Allen White. New York: Macmillan.
Whitt, J. Kenneth, and Norman M. Prentice
1977 "Cognitive Processes in the Development of Children's Enjoyment and Com-
prehension of Joking Riddles. " Developmental Psychology 3:129-36.
Whitten, Norman E. , Jr. , and John F. Szwed
1982 Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Free
Press.
Whyte, William Foote
1955 Street Corner Society. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Whyte, William H.
1980 The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Washington, D. C. : Conservation
Foundation.
Widdowson, John D. A.
1971 "The Bogeyman: Some Preliminary Observations on Frightening Figures. "
Folklore 82:99-115.
1972 "Figures Used for Threatening Children, 1: A Newfoundland Example.
"
Lore and Language 7:20-24.
1977 If You Don't Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland. Social and
Economic Studies, no. 21. Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memo-
rial University of Newfoundland.
Wigginton, Eliot
1974 "A Reply to 'The Lesson of Foxfire. '" North Carolina Folklore Journal
22:35-41.
1980 Foxfire 6. Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday. [Predominantly toys and games
from Georgia, as collected and written up by high-school students. Many de-
tailed drawings and photographs. ]
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
1932 Little House in the Big Woods. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
1935 Little House on the Prairie. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
1961 Little Town on the Prairie. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
Wilkinson, Paul F. (ed. )
1980 Innovation in Play Environments. New York: St. Martin's.
Willard, Nancy
1976 Simple Pictures Are Best. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Williams, Melvin D.
1981 On the Street Where I Lived. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Williams, Raymond
1979 Politics and Letters. London: Verso.
Williams, William Carlos
1951 The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York: New Direc-
tions.
1967 "Children's Games": Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. New York:
New Directions.
Williamson, Billie
1975 "Fun and Games of Mountain Children. " Kentucky Folklore Record 21 43-
55. [Good collection, but no analysis. ]
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? ? Willis, Paul
1977 Learning to Labour. London: Gower.
Wilson, A.
1980 "The Infancy of the History of Childhood: An Appraisal of Philippe Aries. "
History and Theory 19:132-53.
Wimbush, Erica, and Margaret Talbot (eds. )
1988 Relative Freedoms: Women and Leisure. Philadelphia: Open University
Press.
Winslow, David J.
1966a "An Introduction to Oral Tradition Among Children. " Keystone Folklore
Quarterly 11:43-58.
1966b "The Collecting of Children's Lore. " Keystone Folklore Quarterly 11:88-98.
1966c "An Annotated Collection of Children's Lore. " Keystone Folklore Quar-
terly 11:151-202. [The three articles above are collectively subtitled "Oral
Tradition Among Children in Central New York State" and provide an excel-
lent introduction to the subject. ]
1969 "Children's Derogatory Epithets. " Journal of American Folklore 82:255-
63.
Wintemberg, W. J. , and Katherine H. Wintemberg
1918 "Folklore from Grey County, Ontario. " Journal of American Folklore
31:121-22.
Withers, Carl A.
1946 Counting Out. New York: Oxford.
*1947a "Current Events in New York City Children's Folklore. " New York Folk-
lore Quarterly 3:212-22. [Very nice demonstration of the currency of children's
lore. ]
1947b Ready or Not, Here I Come. New York: Grosset and Dunlap.
1948 A Rocket in My Pocket: The Rhymes and Chants of Young Americans. New
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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.
