Child's play :
Dorothy Howard and the folklore of Australian children /
edited by Kate Darian-Smith & June Factor.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Carlton, Vic. : Museum Victoria, 2005.
- Summary
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"American scholar Dorothy Howard came into the unique cultural landscape of mid-1950's Australia, notebook in hand, to document the play of Australian children. She was the first person ever to do so. What she found was remarkable: hundreds of games, rhymes, sayings, chants, taunts, riddles and secret languages. This was a varied and lively and ever-changing tradition of children's play, and all happening 'three feet below adult eye level and invisible to myopic adults'."-- p. [4] of cover.
- Note
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Includes index.
- Physical Description
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vii, 231 p. :
ill. ;
22 cm.
- ISBN
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9780957747173
0957747179
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