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Records games played in the street, park, playground and wasteland of more than 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands. This volume focuses on games involving seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting and pretending.
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About the Author
Iona Archibald Opie (born 1923) and Peter Mason Opie (1918-1982) met during World War II and together became a renowned husband-and-wife team of folklorists with a particular interest in children's toys, games and literature. They have written more than thirty books, including The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1952) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). Iona Opie lives in Hampshire, England.
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'The Opies have compiled the most complete and the most sympathetic, also the most sensible account of what children prefer to do on their own.' -- Country Life 'It is a work of serious anthropology and sociology ... but unlike most works concerned with these disciplines, it is consistently readable, always humane, and sometimes very funny.' -- New Statesman 'A fascinating book, the product of many years' immensely detailed and original research, which is bound to become the standard work upon the history and modern practice of street games.' -- New Society 'Fascinating research ... I hope that the publication of this book will revive the debate about the kinds of games our children play.' -- David Lorimer, Scientific and Medical Network Review
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- PublisherFloris Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0863156673
- ISBN 13 9780863156670
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages221
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