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Book The Traditional Games of England  Scotland  and Ireland

Download or read book The Traditional Games of England Scotland and Ireland written by Alice Bertha Gomme and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Alice Bertha Gomme

Book The Devil and the Victorians

Download or read book The Devil and the Victorians written by Sarah Bartels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.

Book What the Children Said

Download or read book What the Children Said written by Jeanne Pitre Soileau and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanne Pitre Soileau vividly presents children’s voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants, jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it has influenced children’s lives. What the Children Said affirms that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and rhymes and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part of the family interchange. Among second-grade boys and girls at a Catholic school, another transcript presents numerous examples in which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression. Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the rest of the United States.

Book Unfolding Creativity

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Howlett
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-10-28
  • ISBN : 3030757382
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Unfolding Creativity written by John Howlett and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a selection of case studies of pioneers in arts education who were working in the United Kingdom in the period 1890 to 1950. Focusing on music, drama, and visual arts and crafts, the editors and contributors examine the impact these individuals had on developing innovative approaches to these subject areas and how they drew on perspectives that emphasised the need for children’s self-expression. The chapters offer an analysis of the pioneers’ beliefs and values, with a particular emphasis on their ideological positions about identity, nation, and what constituted ‘good taste’. The book further examines how their ideas were disseminated, in so doing interrogating the concept of ‘influence’ in educational theory and practice.

Book Transformations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Schwartzman
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461339383
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Transformations written by Helen Schwartzman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.

Book Children and Young People   s Cultural Worlds

Download or read book Children and Young People s Cultural Worlds written by Bragg, Sarah and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new technologies. The book challenges adult concerns, highlighting instead the diversity of children's experiences and relationships with each other. Children's everyday activities are explored, in an attempt to understand the distinctiveness of their cultural worlds. The book also considers matters of difference on children's lives; the consequences of age and the experience of living in different cultural contexts. This is the second in a series of four books, written by experts in the field, which provides an introduction to childhood degree programmes and related modules. The series features international case studies, examples and readings to supplement the chapters, and is illustrated in full colour. Other books in the series are: · Understanding childhood: a cross-disciplinary approach · Childhoods in context · Local childhoods, global issues

Book Games for Everyone

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Booth
  • Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780921217039
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Games for Everyone written by David Booth and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 fascinating games to thrill, surprise, and amaze kids of all ages. Includes old favourites and new, imaginative games that will help students compete, cooperate, communicate, and have fun.

Book Women and Sport

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. Margaret Costa
  • Publisher : Human Kinetics
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780873226868
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Women and Sport written by D. Margaret Costa and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the past, present, and future of women in sport.

Book Medieval Childhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. M. Hadley
  • Publisher : Oxbow Books
  • Release : 2014-08-31
  • ISBN : 1782977015
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Medieval Childhood written by D. M. Hadley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nine papers presented here set out to broaden the recent focus of archaeological evidence for medieval children and childhood and to offer new ways of exploring their lives and experiences. The everyday use of space and changes in the layout of buildings are examined, in order to reveal how these impacted upon the daily practices and tasks of household tasks relating to the upbringing of children. Aspects of work and play are explored: how, archaeologically, we can determine whether, and in what context, children played board and dice games? How we may gain insights into the medieval countryside from the perspective of children and thus begin to understand the processes of reproduction of particular aspects of medieval society and the spaces where children’s activities occurred; and the possible role of children in the medieval pottery industry. Funerary aspects are considered: the burial of infants in early English Christian cemeteries the treatment and disposal of infants and children in the cremation ritual of early Anglo-Saxon England; and childhood, children and mobility in early medieval western Britain, especially Wales. The volume concludes with an exploration of what archaeologists can draw from other disciplines – historians, art historians, folklorists and literary scholars – and the approaches that they take to the study of childhood and thus the enhancement of our knowledge of medieval society in general.

Book Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : State Library of Massachusetts
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1112 pages

Download or read book Report written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Documents of Massachusetts

Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Librarian of the State Library

Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library written by Massachusetts State Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts

Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue

Download or read book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Children s Bureau

Download or read book Publications of the Children s Bureau written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Children s Bureau Publication

Download or read book Children s Bureau Publication written by United States. Children's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bureau publication  United States  Children s Bureau   no  92  1925

Download or read book Bureau publication United States Children s Bureau no 92 1925 written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: