The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
ISBN-10
0940322692
ISBN-13
9780940322691
Category
Social Science
Pages
417
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Authors
Peter Opie, Iona Opie

Description

First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."

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