[{"id": "cfr-25035", "words": "9388", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Chick, Garry", "title": "Games and Their Rhetorics: An Idiosyncratic Appreciation of The Contributions of Brian Sutton-Smith", "date": "2015", "keywords": "boys; chance; chick; children; games; models; play; research; rhetorics; roberts; skill; smith; strategy; studies; study; sutton", "summary": "Of the 111 societies, data on games and game play were available in the Cross-Cultural Survey and Human Relations Area Files based at Yale University. Thus, chance is linked with responsibility, divination, nomadic habits, and economic uncertainty; physical skill is linked with the tropics and hunting; central-person games are linked with independence training and marriage; and strategy games are linked with class stratification and warfare.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25036", "words": "7538", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Mechling, Jay", "title": "Sutton-Smith\u2019s Five Easy Pieces", "date": "2015", "keywords": "analysis; brian; children; folklore; games; girls; mechling; new; play; press; smith; study; sutton; university; work", "summary": "Put briefly, they focus on Bateson\u2019s point (in his \u201cTheory of Play and Fantasy,\u201d the foundational essay on play frames) that \u201cthe peculiarity of play \u2026 CFR_2015_R.indb 34 11/22/15 10:41 AM Mechling Sutton-SMith\u2019S In that address Brian explained that (as the handout outline for his address puts it) the address and book would be \u201cmy response to my deconstruction of play theories without providing an alternative in The Ambiguity of Play, 1997.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25037", "words": "1665", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "Beresin, Anna", "title": "Inventing the Discipline While You Break It All Down: An Essay in Memory of Brian Sutton-Smith", "date": "2015", "keywords": "children; end; new; play; york", "summary": "New York: Ballentine. New York: Avon. Falassi, Alessandro.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25038", "words": "909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "Brian Sutton-Smith (1924-2015)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "brian; children; folklore", "summary": "I first met Brian when he gave a lecture about children\u2019s storytelling, based on stories told by children aged two to ten that his team of students had collected in New York; these narratives became the foundation for his Folkstories of Children (1981). Brian received New Zealand\u2019s first Ph.D. in education in 1954 and traveled to the United States as a Fulbright scholar shortly afterwards.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25039", "words": "7326", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Mitra, Semontee", "title": "\u201cChildren Have Their Own World of Being\u201d: An Ethnography of Children\u2019s Activities on the Day of Saraswati Puja", "date": "2015", "keywords": "activities; american; boys; children; day; festival; games; girls; group; indian; parents; play; puja", "summary": "Therefore, in the context of Saraswati Puja, participating children are primarily redefining the meaning of not only the religious event, but also the space through their activities.8 CFR_2015_R.indb 49 11/22/15 10:41 AM \u201cChildren have Their Own wOrld Of Being\u201d SemOnTee miTra 50 As a guide to ethnographic observation, I gave attention to the play frame formed by different groups of children. In the twentieth century folklorists posited that in contrast to a view of children as passive vessels of static traditions, they actively adapted traditions and changed them and that is evident in my observations CFR_2015_R.indb 50 11/22/15 10:41 AM Semontee mitra \u201cChildren have their own world of Being\u201d 51 as children performed various games without a clear distinction to their ethnic sources (Bronner 1988:12).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25043", "words": "4405", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Howard, Jeffrey G.", "title": "Trickster\u2019s Economics: Conservation and Innovation in the Game of Jinx", "date": "2014", "keywords": "children; folklore; game; jinx; knapp; lydia; rhyme; time; trickster; version", "summary": "C.W. Sullivan III says, \u201cChildren\u2019s games \u2026 often include rhymes,\u201d but the appearance of rhyme in recorded Jinx versions is rare, although in its predecessor \u201cNeedles and Pins\u201d rhyming is standard issue (Sullivan 1995, 147). Thus, by replacing games like \u201cNeedles and Pins\u201d with \u201cJinx\u201d allowed children to express that type of antagonism verbally when they were not allowed to express it physically.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25044", "words": "593", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "Children\u2019s Folkore in the Twenty-First Century: Folklorists of Childhood respond to the Newtown Tragedy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "children; folklore", "summary": "In the aftermath of the horrifying tragedy at Newtown in 2012, in which twenty children and six teachers died at the hands of a late-adolescent shooter, this panel again gathers folklorists of childhood to re-examine the use and urgency of children\u2019s and adolescents\u2019 folklore for youth and adults. We plan to examine the culture of childhood from multiple vantage points, exploring how children and adolescents maintain their own culture and what methods and strategies we choose to use in our research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25045", "words": "7646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "The Endangered Child: Choking and Fainting Games in the Online Underground of Youtube", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adults; boys; children; choking; comments; fainting; games; girls; people; playing; videos; young; youtube", "summary": "Comments two through six \u2014 questions and compliments \u2014 are also typical of comments on YouTube videos of fainting and choking games. Comments on choking and fainting game videos display a similar dynamic, in which teenaged skeptics engage other teens and adults in lively, sometimes acrimonious dialogue.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25046", "words": "9348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bronner, Simon J.", "title": "\u201cThe Shooter has Asperger\u2019s\u201d: Autism, Belief, and \u201cWild Child\u201d Narratives", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adam; american; asperger; association; autism; bronner; cfr_2014.indb; children; disorder; folk; lanza; new; psychiatric; school; shooter; society; spectrum; syndrome; violence; york", "summary": "The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome, rev. ed. Asperger Syndrome: An Update.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25049", "words": "2112", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Mould, Tom", "title": "Preface for Special Issue of Children\u2019s Folklore Review: Mormon Children\u2019s Folklore", "date": "2013", "keywords": "children; church; folklore; lds; mormon; young", "summary": "Many young children bear their testimonies during Fast and Testimony meetings long before the still young age of eight, the \u201cage of awareness\u201d among Latter-day Saints when children are assumed to be mature and competent enough to make at least one choice of their own free will: the choice to be baptized. Yet despite what may seem an accelerated trajectory into adulthood, as Rife and Ellsworth show, LDS children find ample time to play, both outside and inside church meetings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25051", "words": "29914", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Editor, OJS", "title": "Volume 37, 2015", "date": "2015", "keywords": "11/22/15; activities; american; book; boys; brian; brian sutton; cfr_2015_r.indb; chance; chick; children; culture; day; folklore; frame; games; girls; group; john; journal; mechling; new; play; power; press; puja; research; review; rhetorics; roberts; skill; smith; society; strategy; studies; study; sutton; time; university; work; world; years; york", "summary": "It seems to S-S/K-B that despite all the research on play presented at the conference and in this volume, the \u201cmost general strategy for not studying child play seems to be to write articles on their functions and pretty much to ignore the detailed moment by moment description of the experience itself as if we already know what that experience is\u201d (1984:186). Of the 111 societies, data on games and game play were available in the Cross-Cultural Survey and Human Relations Area Files based at Yale University.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25052", "words": "25111", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Volume 36, 2014", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adam; adults; american; asperger; autism; boys; bronner; cfr_2014.indb; childhood; children; choking; comments; control; culture; disorder; fainting; folklore; game; jinx; journal; lanza; new; parents; people; play; playing; press; review; school; shooter; society; syndrome; time; trickster; tucker; university; video; violence; york; young; youtube", "summary": "Comments on choking and fainting game videos display a similar dynamic, in which teenaged skeptics engage other teens and adults in lively, sometimes acrimonious dialogue. Although he was described as a \u201cshut-in,\u201d classmates remembered a boy involved in outdoor activities of soccer and skateboarding in addition to playing video games and reading indoors (O\u2019Leary 2013; see also Flegenheimer and Somaiya 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25053", "words": "11456", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Green, Spencer Lincoln", "title": "And a Child Shall Lead Them: The Wise Child Folk Motif in Mormon Discourse", "date": "2013", "keywords": "adults; child; children; church; conference; god; good; green; jesus; knowing; knowledge; lord; man; members; mormon; wisdom", "summary": "Categorizing wise children in Mormon discourse with these traits was sometimes unclear. The emphasis on wise children in General Conference may reflect this precedent and desire to emulate Jesus Christ\u2019s example, and align themselves with his teachings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25054", "words": "6695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Rife, Jared S.", "title": "Playing with the Sacred: LDS Children\u2019s Games for Boredom and Entertainment", "date": "2013", "keywords": "age; children; church; games; lds; members; mormon; play; playing; rife; sacrament; sacred; service; youth", "summary": "By playing these games they literally bringing the world (or in this case the World Wide Web) into their lives and their sacred spaces.26 The final point of this frame analysis is how church games treat the contexts of sacredness and reverence in an enactment of play. This is also manifest in the strong correlation of children that use their parents (or in some cases their own) electronic devices when playing puzzles and other games that the church provides on their website.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25055", "words": "6159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Ellsworth, Brant W.", "title": "Playing for Change: The Performative Functions of Children\u2019s Piano Play", "date": "2013", "keywords": "children; church; folklore; gracie; mattie; performance; piano; piano play; play; playing; song; totten", "summary": "Mormon children are first and foremost children and by tracing repetition and variation of piano play among other children, my analysis suggests a universal performative function. This scene is effective at conveying Hanks\u2019 inner-turmoil because similar impromptu concerts are performed daily, flash-mob style, by children at pianos around the world and are recognized, around the world, as children songs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25056", "words": "27874", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Volume 35, 2013", "date": "2013", "keywords": "adults; age; american; book; children; church; conference; culture; day; example; folklore; games; god; green; jesus; lds; lds church; lead; like; meeting; members; mormon; new; people; piano; piano play; play; playing; press; rife; sacred; saints; song; time; university; use; world; young; youth", "summary": "Mormon children are first and foremost children and by tracing repetition and variation of piano play among other children, my analysis suggests a universal performative function. Mormon children playing quiet games.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25057", "words": "12085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Stanzak, Steve", "title": "Manipulating Play Frames: The Yo Momma Joke Cycle on YouTube", "date": "2012", "keywords": "10/19/12; alex; cfr_2012.indb; dozens; fat; frames; framework; jokes; joking; momma jokes; participants; play; stanzak; video; yo momma; youtube", "summary": "The Structure of Yo Momma Jokes In regard to form, Yo Momma jokes are distinct, stable, and easily identifiable. While the content of Yo Momma jokes is usually traditional, YouTube offers innovative new ways for participants not only to manipulate jokes\u2019 performance contexts, but also to create new contexts entirely.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25058", "words": "2953", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Spetter, Linda Kinsey", "title": "Zashikiwarashi, The Ghost that is Saving Japan", "date": "2012", "keywords": "children; figure; ghost; japan; man; zashikiwarashi", "summary": "She keeps begging for the sake of her unborn child, so at last they put her in \u201cthat\u201d room which is usually never used because it is full of Zashikiwarashi spirits. In the Mononoke anime film which I mentioned earlier, in which the pregnant woman stayed in a room full of Zashikiwarashi spirits, the spirits were in the form of small mizuko statues (see Figure 5).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25059", "words": "7952", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Holmes, Robyn M.", "title": "Young Children\u2019s Table Talk with Peers in Early Childhood Settings", "date": "2012", "keywords": "boys; children; conversations; example; food; girls; holmes; language; peer; play; preschool; speech; table; talk; young", "summary": "As Wolf (1996) suggested, child to child conversations may provide the context for critical language lessons, since the inequality and power differentials in adult to child speech are not present in peer speech interactions. The sociolinguist William Corsaro (1986; 1990; 1997) has extensively studied how young children use language and discourse to communicate their social status and understand their position within their peer groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25060", "words": "2760", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "The White Lady of Devil\u2019s Elbow", "date": "2012", "keywords": "devil; elbow; lady; legend; pranks; white", "summary": "The following \u201cWhite Lady\u201d legend, told by my student and Owego area resident Irene in 2004, includes a husband whose body vanishes: A long time ago, on a dark and stormy night, a newlywed couple was driving over Devil\u2019s Elbow Hill Road. As Jan Harold Brunvand has noted, horror legends tend to emphasize the vulnerability of young women and men who go out on their own, especially at night (1981, 11).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25061", "words": "872", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bronner, Simon J.", "title": "Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling By Anna R. Beresin", "date": "2012", "keywords": "children; play; recess", "summary": "simon J bronner A spate of books lately have signaled a dire warning about the threat to free play with the elimination of recess by school administrations and the regimentation of children at camps and after-school programs. Folklorists have much to contribute to this discourse in the \u201cwar on recess\u201d because of the association of recess play with spontaneous, evolving traditional practices controlled by children rather than administrated by adults or influenced by corporations (in the form of video games and other gadgets directing play).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25062", "words": "28390", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Volume 34, 2012", "date": "2012", "keywords": "10/19/12; alex; american; boys; cfr_2012.indb; children; content; conversations; dozens; example; family; fat; folklore; food; form; frames; framework; ghost; girls; holmes; jokes; lady; language; momma jokes; mother; new; participants; peer; play; speech; stanzak; table; talk; time; video; white; yo momma; young; youtube; zashikiwarashi", "summary": "The Structure of Yo Momma Jokes In regard to form, Yo Momma jokes are distinct, stable, and easily identifiable. While the content of Yo Momma jokes is usually traditional, YouTube offers innovative new ways for participants not only to manipulate jokes\u2019 performance contexts, but also to create new contexts entirely.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25063", "words": "9635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Schramm, Katharine R. M.", "title": "Nascent Folklore: Communication and Aesthetics in Infancy", "date": "2011", "keywords": "10/31/11; behavior; cfr_2011_r.indb; children; communication; folklore; imitation; infant; innovation; intention; interaction; play; press; schramm; university", "summary": "I think that we as ethnographers must be willing to spend the time necessary to interpret infant behavior in long-term ethnographic context, to recognize individuated cries and gestures, as well as culturally-relevant recognizing of infant intention \u2014 what is recognized will be responded to. Knowing that infants are intentional agents and recognizing infant intention may be separate matters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25064", "words": "3286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Lester, Neal", "title": "Fathers and Their African American Daughters: Hair Pieces Creating Ties that Bind", "date": "2011", "keywords": "american; daughter; girls; hair; lester; love; new; straight", "summary": "Even the social and political CFR_2011_R.indb 27 10/31/11 8:57:37 AM FAthers And their AFriCAn AmeriCAn dAughters lester 28 implications of straight hair for Disney\u2019s first African American princess Tiana, from The Princess and the Frog,1 reveals minimal efforts to challenge prevailing ideals about \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d hair. With this question so steeped in cultural folklore and written so indelibly upon the fabric of America\u2019s distinct history of black and white CFR_2011_R.indb 28 10/31/11 8:57:37 AM lester FAthers And their AFriCAn AmeriCAn dAughters 29 race relations, Rock set out to explore why this prevailing notion of \u201cgood hair\u201d as straight hair, presumably like white people\u2019s hair \u2014 even though all whites don\u2019t necessarily have straight hair \u2014 still exists and has reached his and surely other young African American daughters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25065", "words": "4270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Saloy, Mona Lisa", "title": "Sidewalk Songs, Jump-Rope Rhymes, and Clap-Hand Games of African American Children", "date": "2011", "keywords": "american; baby; children; games; jump; kids; rhymes; rope; sidewalk; songs", "summary": "This research into the songs, games, and rhymes of African American children suggests strongly that it is no accident African Americans have contributed to world music, to an original American literary landscape. The verbal prowess of African American children played on sidewalks in urban spaces is a direct link to the popular culture, music and story-telling nature of what become commercial raps.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25066", "words": "1061", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "84", "author": "Phillips, Karin", "title": "Genetic Bubble Wrap", "date": "2011", "keywords": "boys; scott; summer", "summary": "The hill was steep and there was a building to be avoided at the bottom but there isn\u2019t any way I can squeeze it under the heading of dangerous games. His childhood stories quite literally make my jaw drop and his antics over the last couple of summers of high school unmistakably flash \u201cDANGEROUS GAME\u201d in brilliant neon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25067", "words": "1371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Weintraub, Pamela", "title": "Failing to Fly, But Free Falling: Jumping as a Form of Childhood Release", "date": "2011", "keywords": "feet; jumping; swing", "summary": "Perhaps suffering from what Peter and Iona Opie termed \u201cmisplaced audacity,\u201d where children take risks with common objects such as \u201cknives, swings, and roller-towels\u201d (Tucker 2008, 36), my friends and I utilized a number of playground structures in our pursuit of thrills. The closer swings, well within their view, were not suitable for what we had in mind---swing bouncing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25068", "words": "6845", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Macgregor, Robert", "title": "The Appropriation of a Commercial Trademark: The Golliwog as a Cultural Marker", "date": "2011", "keywords": "10/31/11; appropriation; beltane; black; britain; cfr_2011_r.indb; children; costumes; daily; golliwog; golly; macgregor; new; parade; peebles; trademark", "summary": "The Golliwog Controversy: Beltane Festival On February 15, 1991, The Peebleshire News reported that the wearing of golliwogs costumes had been banned from the 1991 Beltane Festival Parade in Peebles. Critics of the costumes and \u201cblacken-faced\u201d young people saw them as golliwogs, a highly criticized doll-like figure from Enid Blyton\u2019s \u201cNoddy Series\u201d of children\u2019s books.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25069", "words": "4804", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Green, Spencer Lincoln", "title": "Disastrous Alternatives: Boy Scout Disaster Stories and Legends and Imagining the Natural World", "date": "2011", "keywords": "canyon; danger; legend; narrows; scout; stories; story; troop; water; world", "summary": "Similar to how Scout legends can imbue an area with potential danger, many news accounts wrote of the potential dangers of the real storm, the \u201cpotentially affected population\u201d and \u201cpotential damage\u201d (Ranii 2011). Combine that with the West\u2019s reliance on the peskily absent element, and water becomes a dangerous element in need of such legends to explain, warn, and instruct us to be wary.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25070", "words": "33520", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Volume 33, 2011", "date": "2011", "keywords": "10/31/11; adult; african; american; baby; behavior; beltane; black; cfr_2011_r.indb; children; costumes; culture; daughter; folklore; games; girls; golliwog; golly; group; hair; hand; imitation; infant; innovation; intention; jump; kids; legends; life; like; love; new; news; parade; parents; people; play; press; review; rhymes; rope; school; schramm; scout; sidewalk; songs; stories; time; university; water; way; work; world; years", "summary": "This research into the songs, games, and rhymes of African American children suggests strongly that it is no accident African Americans have contributed to world music, to an original American literary landscape. The verbal prowess of African American children played on sidewalks in urban spaces is a direct link to the popular culture, music and story-telling nature of what become commercial raps.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25073", "words": "9699", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Milligan, Amy K.", "title": "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Upsherin, Alef-Bet, and the Childhood Navigation of Jewish Gender Identity Symbol Sets", "date": "2017", "keywords": "body; boy; boys; children; community; gender; hair; jewish; jews; milligan; new; orthodox; press; ritual; university; upsherin; women; york; young", "summary": "Milligan Hair Today, gone ToMorrow 9 Examples of this include the long, unshorn hair of Old Order Anabaptist girls, often worn in braids until it is pinned up under a prayer covering after baptism (Reynolds 2001; Scott 2008); the uncut and carefully wrapped hair and turban of a Sikh child; twists and braids with bright beads worn by African American girls (Byrd 2002; Leeds Craig 2002; Prince 2010); a Muslim infant\u2019s first haircut on the seventh day of his life; or, as discussed in this essay, the creation of payot (sidelocks or sidecurls worn by Jewish men, sometimes also referred to as payos in Yiddish) for Jewish boys during their upsherin. In this Sephardic context, Jewish boys are circumcised at eight-days-old and have their hair cut at age five, an inverse mirroring of Muslim boys having their hair cut on the seventh day and their circumcision at the age seven.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25074", "words": "5438", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "\u201cThere's an App For That\u201d\u00ae: Ghost Hunting with Smartphones", "date": "2017", "keywords": "app; apps; basement; ghost; haunted; hunting; legend; radar; room; smartphone; story; students", "summary": "This essay will explore how smartphone apps have influenced legend trips during the second decade of the twenty-first century. During legend trips influenced by smartphone apps, hypermodern ostension takes place.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25075", "words": "8470", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Mieder, Wolfgang", "title": "\u201cLittle Pitchers Have Big Ears\u201d: The Intricate World of Children and Proverbs", "date": "2017", "keywords": "book; children; development; ears; faber; illustrations; language; mieder; new; pitchers; press; proverbs; university; wisdom; york", "summary": "They are clearly intended to teach children proverbs, just as other children\u2019s books acquaint youngsters with fables, fairy tales, legends, myths, etc. This book is clearly meant to teach children proverbs, and my proverb students would be able to explain to the little girl that the proverb \u201cFirst come, first served\u201d is actually a medieval Latin legal proverb that relates to the miller.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25076", "words": "10303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Delfino, Andrew; Mechling, Jay", "title": "Wrestling With Masculinity", "date": "2017", "keywords": "boys; culture; folk; frame; hazing; high; male; masculinity; mechling; play; playfighting; press; r&t; school; sports; women; wrestlers; wrestling; young", "summary": "Women Wrestlers We titled this article \u201cWrestling with Masculinity,\u201d realizing at the same time that an increasing number of women are wrestling at the high school level and necessar- ily are wrestling as a sexual minority on male wrestling teams (Lewin 2007). Delfino anD Mechling Wrestling With Masculinity 71 Hazing on male wrestling teams does not surprise us.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25077", "words": "6294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Puglia, David J.", "title": "Growing Little Traditions: Baltimore\u2019s Little Miss Hon Contest", "date": "2017", "keywords": "baltimore; city; class; contest; hon; hon contest; honfest; identity; image; little; miss; miss hon; puglia; tradition", "summary": "Today, Baltimore\u2019s racial demographics stand at approximately two-thirds black to one-third white, and its neighborhoods remain highly stratified.5 How did we get to this strange scene that plays annually in modern Baltimore? The Caf\u00e9 Hon: Working-Class White Femininity and Commodified Nostalgia in Postindustrial Baltimore.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25078", "words": "3129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hutcheson, Cory Thomas", "title": "Finding New Monsters in Old Places: A Review of the Works of Simon J. Bronner Through an Age-Intersectional Lens", "date": "2017", "keywords": "belsnickel; bronner; children; father; folklore; new; tales", "summary": "What, then, are those who disseminate the tales to younger children getting out of the exchange? My piece discussed the phenomenon of father-child \u201chorror play,\u201d in which the adult pretends to be a monster in pursuit of the child or children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25079", "words": "1187", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Beresin, Anna", "title": "Children\u2019s Games in the New Media Age: Childlore, Media and the Playground edited by Andrew Burn and Chris Richards", "date": "2017", "keywords": "book; chapter; children; games; opie", "summary": "Methods included surveys, panel interviews of children, and video footage taken by adults and children alike. Most impressive was the involvement of children in the website development, as \u201cresearchers, designers, and curators.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25080", "words": "1239", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Hutcheson, Cory Thomas", "title": "Let\u2019s Get the Rhythm!: The Life and Times of Miss Mary Mack directed by Irene Chagall", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chagall; film; games; girls", "summary": "Chagall takes her camera around the world and through long stretches of human history to develop the film\u2019s thesis that clapping games are serious business for the girls who play them and that such games are worthy of focused attention. Clapping games, demonstrates Chagall, can address problems like Jim Crow segregation or the high incidence of sickle cell anemia in Sierra Leone, where the girls play a clapping game called \u201cAh Mella Sickle Cella.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25081", "words": "48390", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Volume 38, 2017", "date": "2017", "keywords": "age; american; app; baltimore; body; book; boys; bronner; childhood; children; city; college; community; contest; culture; education; experience; folklore; frame; games; gender; ghost; girls; group; hair; hazing; high; hon; identity; jewish; jews; journal; legend; life; little; male; masculinity; mechling; mieder; miss; modern; new; new york; orthodox; place; play; playfighting; practice; press; proverbs; radar; ritual; school; simon; stories; students; studies; time; tradition; university; university press; upsherin; use; way; women; work; wrestlers; wrestling; years; york; young", "summary": "They are clearly intended to teach children proverbs, just as other children\u2019s books acquaint youngsters with fables, fairy tales, legends, myths, etc. This book is clearly meant to teach children proverbs, and my proverb students would be able to explain to the little girl that the proverb \u201cFirst come, first served\u201d is actually a medieval Latin legal proverb that relates to the miller.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25082", "words": "7776", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa", "title": "Help! I\u2019m a Feminist But My Daughter is a \u201cPrincess Fanatic\u201d! Disney's Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Girls", "date": "2010", "keywords": "2004; beauty; children; cinderella; clapp; disney; fanatic; films; girls; itnyre; mermaid; pocahontas; princess; snow; songs; white; women", "summary": "Two sociological studies of Disney films (Hoerrner; Towbin et al.) (1995, 36-7) But the 1990s Disney films would still probably have failed had they not been enhanced by incredibly promoted soundtracks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25083", "words": "11697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Baron, Robert", "title": "\u201cI Saw Mrs. Saray, Sitting on a Bombalerry\u201d: Ralph Ellison Collects Children's Folklore", "date": "2010", "keywords": "african; american; baron; bombalerry; children; city; culture; ellison; fiction; folklore; games; halpert; harlem; mrs; new; new york; play; rhymes; saray; traditions; york", "summary": "Much of African American folklore, BARON \u201cI SAW MRS. SARAY, SITTING ON A BOMBALERRY\u201d 45 like many of the children\u2019s traditions Ellison collected, is distinctively African American in character, created and shaped by blacks in the Southern United States and Harlem. In The Craft of Ralph Ellison, O\u2019Meally indicates that Ellison perceived Southern sources \u201ceven when the Harlem lore seemed indigenous,\u201d and he would sometimes \u201crecognize a remnant of a saying or rhyme he had heard in the South reduced to a `mumble\u2019 or nonsense phrase in Harlem.\u201d O\u2019Meally discusses Ellison\u2019s contention that these traditions suggested a bridge to the south and to African ancestry, and he cites Ellison as stating that their \u201ctradition goes way back to the South, and some of it goes back to Africa\u201d (1980, 34).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25084", "words": "2964", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Thursby, Jacqueline", "title": "Boise Ikastola: Boise Basque Language Immersion Preschool", "date": "2010", "keywords": "american; basque; boise; children; country; ikastola; language; play", "summary": "Older children become more and more bilingual as they pass through the educational system. Housed at St. Paul\u2019s Catholic Church on the Boise State University Campus, it introduces young children to Basque and not only aids in their comprehension of the Basque language, but also helps with developing other language skills.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25085", "words": "12503", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Blank, Trevor J.", "title": "Cheeky Behavior: The Meaning and Function of \u2018Fartlore\u2019 in Childhood and Adolescene", "date": "2010", "keywords": "american; behavior; boise; bronner; children; control; dundes; example; farting; fartlore; flatulence; folklore; functions; gas; humor; ikastola; jones; journal; new; passing; play; press; society; university; york", "summary": "After all, adults are more than capable of participating in flatulence humor or games. 61 CHEEKY BEHAVIOR: THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF \u2018FARTLORE\u2019 IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE TREVOR J. BLANK Whether it is due to social taboos about bodily functions or sheer ingenuity, flatulence has well over a dozen common terms associated with its occurrence: passing gas, breaking wind, letting one rip (or go), cutting the cheese, busting ass, pooting, tooting, foofing, fluffing, puffing; folk retorts that mask the anxieties caused by flatulence through euphemistic annotations also exist, such as \u201cdropping a bomb,\u201d \u201cmaking a stinker,\u201d \u201ccooking some eggs,\u201d \u201cbaking brownies,\u201d \u201cmaking an air biscuit,\u201d \u201cstepping on a duck,\u201d \u201ccracking a boom-boom,\u201d or \u201crolling out some thunder.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25086", "words": "866", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Carpenter, Tracy", "title": "Pleasures and Perils: Girls\u2019 Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture by Debra Curtis", "date": "2010", "keywords": "culture; curtis; girls", "summary": "The notion of commodity erotics in Nevis \u2014 the conflation of sexual practices and commodity desire \u2014 renders a continuum that ranges from the exchange of sex to meet the family\u2019s basic needs, to sex for personal consumption. Personal history interviews, focus groups and surveys assessed sexual practices, leisure activities, and consumerism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25088", "words": "1010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Venable, Brandi J.", "title": "Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature by Susan Honeyman", "date": "2010", "keywords": "book; children; honeyman", "summary": "Because of its interdisciplinary nature, academics and professionals in the fields of folklore, childhood studies, children\u2019s literature, fairy tale studies, and cultural studies should find significant the arguments made in this book, relevant to their specific discipline. For this reason, the book is invaluable to anyone interested in childhood studies, no matter what their academic or professional angle.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25089", "words": "1041", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Castleman, Michele D.", "title": "Children\u2019s Folklore: A Handbook by Elizabeth Tucker", "date": "2010", "keywords": "children; folklore; studies", "summary": "In its place, the Contexts section (Chapter Five) lists autobiographies, children\u2019s literature, film, television, toys, games and dolls as recommended media for exploring children\u2019s folklore without presenting the reader with rigorous methodologies for data collection among children and youth. However, even if the argument is restricted by page numbers, the book should incite discussion across academic disciplines, bringing together folklorists and child-rights activists, cultural studies and children\u2019s literature scholars.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25090", "words": "39028", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Volume 32, 2010", "date": "2010", "keywords": "african; american; american folklore; baron; basque; boise; bombalerry; book; childhood; children; cinderella; city; collection; culture; disney; ellison; fartlore; fiction; films; flatulence; folklore; games; girls; halpert; harlem; ikastola; itnyre; journal; language; literature; man; mrs; new; new york; notes; people; performance; play; pocahontas; press; princess; research; review; rhymes; saray; sexual; snow; society; songs; studies; study; thursby; time; traditions; university; use; white; women; world; years; york; young", "summary": "The worker was informed that this game was learned from other children, while one girl, Catherine Mason, said she learned it in Richmond Va. Lady in the River (a game song) There\u2019s a lady in the river Sail away, sail away, sail away There\u2019s a lady in the river Sail away, Looking for her lover Sail away, sail away, sail away. Short verses were found widely among New York City children \u2014 Halpert speaks in his proposal for Children\u2019s Rhymes and Games of the \u201cdistinctly New Yorkese rhyme which is short, snappy and to the point.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25091", "words": "40010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 31 (2008-2009)", "date": "2009", "keywords": "adult; age; american; bar mitzvah; bat; book; boy; boys; breath; bronner; century; ceremony; cfr_2009_r4.indb; childhood; children; control; culture; day; education; family; fast; father; folklore; friends; games; group; hebrew; identity; jews; john; life; literature; male; man; modern; mother; new; parents; passage; people; play; playing; press; review; rhymes; ritual; school; society; sons; students; studies; study; time; torah; tucker; university; way; world; years; york; young", "summary": "She has to go to a different school and wear a gold star on her sleeve, she cannot sit on certain benches in the park, and when a group of Jewish children are taken away, she and her family go into hiding. Eight-year-old Rachel Hartog, a Jewish girl living in Holland, can\u2019t understand why there are restrictions on Jews all of a sudden--she must go to a different school, she must wear a gold star on her sleeve, she can\u2019t sit in certain benches in the park--and when a group of Jewish children are taken away, she and her family go into hiding.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25094", "words": "14064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Bronner, Simon J.", "title": "Fathers and Sons: Rethinking the Bar Mitzvah as an American Rite of Passage", "date": "2009", "keywords": "age; bar mitzvah; bat; boy; bronner; ceremony; cfr_2009_r4.indb; education; fast; father; hebrew; jews; life; modern; mother; new; passage; press; ritual; sons; synagogue; torah; tradition; york", "summary": "The kind of bar mitzvah commanding popular culture attention is likely of non-pietistic Jews, often called liberal or assimilated. One can join the minyan without being bar mitzvah and could celebrate bar mitzvah at other ages and localities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25095", "words": "4076", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "83", "author": "Ord, Priscilla", "title": "Children of the Holocaust: Common Games, Play, and Pastimes in Uncommon Times", "date": "2009", "keywords": "boston; children; company; family; holocaust; houghton; mifflin; orgel", "summary": "She has to go to a different school and wear a gold star on her sleeve, she cannot sit on certain benches in the park, and when a group of Jewish children are taken away, she and her family go into hiding. Eight-year-old Rachel Hartog, a Jewish girl living in Holland, can\u2019t understand why there are restrictions on Jews all of a sudden--she must go to a different school, she must wear a gold star on her sleeve, she can\u2019t sit in certain benches in the park--and when a group of Jewish children are taken away, she and her family go into hiding.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25096", "words": "6511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "\u201cGo to Bed, Now You're Dead\u201d: Suffocation Songs and Breath Control Games", "date": "2009", "keywords": "adolescents; august; bed; breath; children; choking; control; death; friends; games; hanging; parents; people; playing; tucker", "summary": "During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, more information about breath control games has become available. Because breath control games belong to the childhood underground, it has not been easy for adults to understand the games\u2019 extent and meaning, but the Internet has greatly increased adults\u2019 and children\u2019s understanding of the games\u2019 dangers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25097", "words": "4299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Retief, Glen", "title": "The Karma of Violence", "date": "2009", "keywords": "cfr_2009_r4.indb; john; karma; parents; retief; school; south; standard; time; violence", "summary": "When, after three months of John\u2019s depredations, my parents managed to persuade the school authorities to transfer him to another passage\u2014an action they took without telling me, for fear I would give away the secret and become more of a target\u2014the abuses continued, albeit at a reduced intensity, and in fact they persisted throughout high school. The case management meetings called for every flunked test or irritable outburst by a student in Math class, where a thoughtful, sympathetic school counselor suggests anger management strategies or procrastination-beating mental tricks\u2014these seem from a different universe than our mock hangings in school bathrooms, where once my friend Andre involuntarily stained the wood of an improvised gallows with his urine.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25098", "words": "4825", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Sullivan III, C. W.", "title": "Children's Oral Poetry: Identity and Obscenity", "date": "2009", "keywords": "adult; bronner; cfr_2009_r4.indb; children; folklore; group; poetry; rhymes; sullivan", "summary": "Children use traditional rhymnes in what Iona and Peter Opie, in The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, call \u201coral legislation\u201d (1959, 121-153); that is, they use rhymes in the way older children and adults use books of rules. Introduction We were all children once, and according to children\u2019s folklorist Jay Mechling, that might pose a problem for collectors of children\u2019s folklore.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25099", "words": "849", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "McCormick, Kathryn A.", "title": "Kid Culture: Neighborhood Exploration Through Enrichment Clusters", "date": "2009", "keywords": "culture; neighborhood; students", "summary": "Students shared their interests and concerns about their community, their play spaces, and their safety and illustrated neighborhood planning strategies to implement model neighborhoods. Urban environments give students the opportunity to understand folklore through connecting to their neighborhood and describing their experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25100", "words": "931", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Kessler, Catharina I.", "title": "Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children by Marta Gutman and Ning De Coninck-Smith, eds.", "date": "2009", "keywords": "book; childhoods; children; material", "summary": "Through the analysis of interviews with white people who were children in the 1960s and 1970s and former African servants from the same period, Ginsburg traces the relationships of white children and their black nannies, who used to live in huts in their backyard. Rather, it argues that sick children inspired travel and connection beyond the home.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25101", "words": "1018", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lee, Jon D.", "title": "From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children\u2019s Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity by Elizabeth A. Galway", "date": "2009", "keywords": "children; galway; literature", "summary": "As post-Confederation Canada struggled to form a national identity separate from that of England, children\u2019s literature increasingly featured Canadian, English, and American children interacting, with Canadian children having to instruct or rescue their foreign friends. JON D. LEE Focusing on children\u2019s literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood provides scholars of folklore, literature and history with a much-needed text that examines the role children\u2019s literature played in forming Canadian national identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25102", "words": "980", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "McDavid, Jodi", "title": "Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses by Elizabeth Tucker", "date": "2009", "keywords": "book; legends; tucker", "summary": "Chapter Seven, \u201cSpectral Indians,\u201d goes beyond campus legends to discuss legends told by non-Indians and to analyse these types of legends and their function. JODI MCDAVID Haunted Halls is a unique approach to the somewhat familiar subject matter of campus legends.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25103", "words": "5507", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Willsey, Kristiana", "title": "The Shoebox Museum: The Aesthetics and Organizational Concepts of Children", "date": "2008", "keywords": "adult; ben; casey; children; museum; objects; personal; shoebox; things", "summary": "Ben\u2019s museum (fig. 4) offers a neat entry point into these intellectual adult projects; his \u201ctreasure chest\u201d is both an implicit challenge to the aims of traditional museums and an affirmation of them. Ben\u2019s museum is unquestionably personal/trivial; his treasures have only individual and idiosyncratic meaning, nothing (apparently) worthy of glass cases Figure 3.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25104", "words": "517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Sullivan III, C. W.", "title": "Nursery School Museum, Martonv\u00e1s\u00e1r, Hungary", "date": "2008", "keywords": "nursery; school", "summary": "The third part of the exhibit looks at nursery education from the end of World War II though the 1960s when it became normal practice for children to be at school all day. Theresa Brunsszvik, a close friend of Beethoven\u2019s, was one of the best educated and most well-informed women of her time, and she became one of the pioneers of nursery school education in Europe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25105", "words": "4856", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hercbergs, Dana", "title": "A Reassessment of Children's Folklore Classification", "date": "2008", "keywords": "children; classification; culture; folklore; forms; games; genres; new; play; playing; role; toys", "summary": "For instance, through ethnographic research folklorists can evaluate the extent CFR_2006-07_R3.indb 26 11/6/08 11:46:06 AM HERCBERGS A REASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN\u2019S FOLKLORE CLASSIFICATION 27 to which children and teens who from a young age engage in mass-mediated digital gaming experience it as hyper-reality or a simulation of reality (Baudrillard 1983, 38 in Rodaway 1995, 246). CFR_2006-07_R3.indb 27 11/6/08 11:46:06 AM A REASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN\u2019S FOLKLORE CLASSIFICATION HERCBERGS 28 While this model accounts for performer-audience interaction only, through which it elucidates the relationships among the genres in an accessible and convincing way, its shortcoming as far as play is concerned is that it does not account for interaction, identification or engrossment in the static genres themselves, some of which are placed outside of the realm of folklore \u2014 what Abrahams calls \u201ca product of technology\u201d (213) \u2014 nor does it make room for considering the figurative and dynamic play world to which that they may give rise.6 And yet, folklorists have demonstrated the imaginative capacity of children when playing with mass-produced toys.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25106", "words": "5003", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "McDowell, John Holmes", "title": "Naming Games and Beyond: Referencing in Children's Verbal Play", "date": "2008", "keywords": "adult; animal; child; children; game; naming; naming game; play; riddles", "summary": "With only a small stretch of the imagination, we can picture young children as mad- cap scientists, boldly trying out theories, testing hypotheses, and adjusting their notions as to what is going on as new data arrives. As younger children seek to enter the riddling arena, and as their slightly older peers seek to sustain a flagging session, riddles of transparent description make their appearance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25107", "words": "7259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "Levitation Revisited", "date": "2008", "keywords": "children; dead; feather; games; girls; levitation; lifting; light; mystery; new; people; person; play; ritual; tucker; york", "summary": "There is a difference between the outcome of Dead Man\u2019s Rise and that of Green Man Rise-O: instead of rising from the dead, the deceased person becomes a frightening ghost that will relentlessly pursue other children. It seems necessary to make these games part of the lineage of levitation rituals and to identify some small but interesting parallels between these rituals and medieval mystery plays.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25108", "words": "3705", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Rosenberg, Jan", "title": "An Eclectic Schoolteacher: Dorothy Howard as Applied Folklorist", "date": "2008", "keywords": "children; dorothy; education; folklore; folklorist; howard; lessons; new; students", "summary": "Like her teachers before her, Boas, Benedict, and Mead,4 Howard saw children as constituting a folk group with their own system of expressions, mores, and beliefs. Dr. Howard called herself an \u201ceclectic school teacher\u201d in her authoethnographic writings, most of which are not dated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25109", "words": "29677", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 30 (2007-2008)", "date": "2008", "keywords": "adult; american; ben; book; cfr_2006-07_r3.indb; childhood; children; culture; dead; education; folklore; folklorists; games; genres; group; howard; john; levitation; life; light; mcdowell; museum; naming; new; objects; people; personal; place; play; press; research; review; ritual; role; school; smith; students; sutton; things; time; toys; tucker; university; way; work; world; years; york; young", "summary": "I don\u2019t know in what way this altered the answers he gave me and I will need to do further research with other children to get a more informed sense of how private these assemblages really are. There is a difference between the outcome of Dead Man\u2019s Rise and that of Green Man Rise-O: instead of rising from the dead, the deceased person becomes a frightening ghost that will relentlessly pursue other children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25110", "words": "10", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Bruce, Alexander M.", "title": "Princesses Without a Prince: A Consideration of Girls' Reactions to Disney's \"Princess\" Movies", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cfr_2005", "summary": "CFR_2005-2006_Part2 CFR_2005-2006_Part3 CFR_2005-2006_Part4 CFR_2005-2006_Part5 CFR_2005-2006_Part6", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25111", "words": "6", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Williams, Randy", "title": "Tea for Two and the Rest of the School: Valentine's Day at Adams Elementary", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cfr_2005", "summary": "CFR_2005-2006_Part7 CFR_2005-2006_Part8 CFR_2005-2006_Part9", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25112", "words": "469", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Foote, Monica", "title": "Vanity Plate Children: The American Propensity Towards Naming", "date": "2006", "keywords": "people", "summary": "In this paper, the factors that have been found to be most important to the naming choices that American parents make will be explored, followed by an examination of the studies that suggest that these factors frequently lead specifically to children being named after someone else. Finally, a look at a certain aspect of American world view will enlighten us as to why this practice of namesaking has been described as a particularly American phenomenon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25113", "words": "378", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Chagall, Irene", "title": "Let's Get Rhythm", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cfr_2005", "summary": "LET'S GET RHYTHM IRENE CHAGALL Handclaps, often overlooked and challenging to document, are a striking folklore tradition shared predominantly by young girls between the ages of five and eleven on every populated continent and many islands between. Yet these games supply many meaningful observations of how young girls perceive themselves and others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25115", "words": "4", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "97", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 28 (2005-2006)", "date": "2006", "keywords": "sunday", "summary": "Sunday, December 03, 2006", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25116", "words": "8099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Mechling, Jay", "title": "Found Photographs and Children's Folklore", "date": "2005", "keywords": "american; boys; children; culture; evidence; fig; folklore; history; kids; lives; mechling; new; photographs; play; snapshots; time; university", "summary": "Moving pictures (film or video) are the best media for capturing how children move their bodies in space, how they position themselves in relation to playmates, how they touch or don't touch other children, and 14 MECHLING FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS so on, but still photography can capture some of the ways children use bodies and space, and snapshots of children reach much farther back into history than do home movies and home video. Photographs of Children The earliest photographs of children, given the bulky technology and the long exposure times required by that technology, are usually set in studios.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25117", "words": "13346", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "93", "author": "Buckley, John", "title": "The Singing Games of Munster Children", "date": "2005", "keywords": "abrahams; bear; buckley; children; city; co.; cork; cork city; games; girls; rhyme; rope; run; school; singing; skipping; spring; teddy; turn", "summary": "Skipping Rhymes The classification system used in this chapter on, Skipping Rhymes, was devised by Bruce Buckley. Run In/Run Out Skipping Rhymes Run in/run out rhymes take different forms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25118", "words": "8855", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Tedesco, Laureen", "title": "The Lost Manhood of the American Girl: A Dilemma in Early Twentieth-Century Girl Scouting", "date": "2005", "keywords": "american; baden; boy; boy scouts; camping; girl; girl scout; girl scouting; handbook; health; manhood; military; new; powell; program; scouting; scouts; tedesco; text; women", "summary": "Recurring themes in the handbook clarify the focus of Girl Scout preparedness: Girl Scout training can prevent accidents or rescue people involved in them; Girl Scout activities such as camping and hiking ensure girls' physical health; and members of the organization learn efficient methods of housecleaning and childcare. In the late teens and early 1920s, when the Girl Scouts Incorporated were sending field workers across the nation to train troop leaders and establish the growing organization's reputation, girls and Boy Scouts of America Scoutmasters tackled the problem of Girl Scout training in their own way: the Scoutmasters, independently or at the request of local girls, taught the girls the basics of Boy Scout training and then wrote to national Girl Scout headquarters for help.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25119", "words": "383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sullivan III, C. W.", "title": "Aunt Betts' Attic: Monroe, Michigan", "date": "2005", "keywords": "aunt; monroe", "summary": "Elizabeth Upham McWebb, usually called Aunt Betty or Aunt Bett to her relatives and youthful fans and known for her Little Brown Bear stories, donated a life-long collection of children's games and toys to the Monroe Museum. There are awards there from individuals, organizations, and government officials, as well as a bust of Aunt Bett herself and two life- sized papier mach\u00e9 figures-Grandma, seated in a chair, and Maude, her favorite elementary school teacher-that she made herself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25120", "words": "31756", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 27 (2004-2005)", "date": "2005", "keywords": "abrahams; american; bear; boys; brady; buckley; camping; car; children; city; clare; co.; cork; cork city; culture; dublin; evidence; fig; folklore; games; girl; girl scout; ground; group; handbook; high; kerry; kids; know; lives; mechling; new; photographs; play; press; rhyme; rope; run; school; scout; scouting; singing; skipping; snapshots; splits; spring; teddy; time; turn; university", "summary": "Recurring themes in the handbook clarify the focus of Girl Scout preparedness: Girl Scout training can prevent accidents or rescue people involved in them; Girl Scout activities such as camping and hiking ensure girls' physical health; and members of the organization learn efficient methods of housecleaning and childcare. The letters often expressed urgency on the part of the girls who had asked the letter-writers to get Girl Scout materials for them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25122", "words": "18727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Ackerley, Janice", "title": "Gender Issues in the Playground Rhymes of New Zealand Children: 1993-2003: An Analysis of the Gender Issues Embedded Within the Playground Rhymes of New Zealand Children", "date": "2004", "keywords": "ackerley; adult; baby; boyfriend; boys; children; collection; culture; data; factor; folklore; games; gender; gender issues; girls; issues; janice; new; playground; playground rhymes; research; rhymes; school; smith; susie; sutton; turner; university", "summary": "These issues are both culturally constructed and are part of the subversive nature of playground rhymes (Grugeon, 1993). This researcher believes that it is important to go beyond the col- lection of playground rhymes and to interrogate the text, in this instance looking for issues related to gender.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25123", "words": "6115", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Gambos, Anita L.", "title": "The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Anderson: A Story of Transformation", "date": "2004", "keywords": "andersen; duckling; fairy; family; life; mother; new; self; tales; time; transformation", "summary": "In Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, Jack Zipes notes in his chapter, Hans Christian Andersen and the Discourse of the Dominated: (The Ugly Ducking) has generally been interpreted as a parable of Andersen's own success story because the naturally gifted underdog survives a period of ugliness to reveal its innate beauty. ) It was when a huge dog, its eyes gleaming horribly, came upon the Ugly Duckling, pushing his dog's nose right into the duckling's face, then departing, that the Ugly Duckling decided to leave the swamp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25124", "words": "5644", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "McNamara, Karen Hill", "title": "From Fairies to Famine: How Cultural Identity is Constructed Through Irish and Irish American Children's Literature", "date": "2004", "keywords": "american; books; characters; children; famine; history; ireland; irish; literature; new; people; soup", "summary": "As a child, Conlon-McKenna emulated Laura Ingalls and Heidi instead of identifying with Irish characters. While historians, economists, sociologists, educators, journalists and politicians have debated the varied and controversial causes for the Irish Famine, all agree that it is a defining event in Irish history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25125", "words": "4009", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "De Vos, Gail; Harris, Merle", "title": "Review Roundup 2003", "date": "2004", "keywords": "book; children; collection; folktales; introduction; series; stories; story; tales; tell", "summary": "Their first book Children Tell Stories: A Teaching Guide (Richard C. Owen, 1990) is a classic. Their first col- lection of stories for children to tell is Stories in My Pocket: Tales Kids Can Read and Tell (Fulcrum, 1996) was a huge hit with students and teachers alike.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25126", "words": "36345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 26 (2003-2004)", "date": "2004", "keywords": "ackerley; adult; american; andersen; baby; book; boyfriend; boys; children; collection; culture; duckling; factor; family; famine; folklore; games; gender; gender issues; girls; history; identity; ireland; irish; issues; janice; life; literature; mother; new; people; playground rhymes; power; research; rhymes; school; smith; stories; story; susie; sutton; tales; teacher; time; today; traditional; turner; university; use; way; world; years; york; zealand", "summary": "Their first book Children Tell Stories: A Teaching Guide (Richard C. Owen, 1990) is a classic. The lore and language of school children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25127", "words": "44561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 25 (2002-2003)", "date": "2003", "keywords": "adult; african; american; ballad; bear; books; bullying; canada; canadian; carpenter; childhood; children; cooper; crystal; cultural; culture; douglas; education; fairy; family; father; folklore; girls; good; group; history; home; illiterate; image; jennet; learning; lester; life; lin; literacy; literature; little; mama; margaret; mean; mother; new; new york; parents; people; play; polar; queen; read; reading; school; self; son; spedden; stories; story; students; studies; study; tam; time; toronto; way; white; work; world; year; yolen; york; young", "summary": "The assurance of appropriate circumstances for children to maintain and pursue their cultural traditions with other children. An examination of the separation between child culture and adult cul- ture and how this is significant to folklore studies. _______.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25128", "words": "6077", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "Mean Girls: The Reclassification of Children's and Adolescents' Folklore", "date": "2003", "keywords": "boys; bullying; children; folklore; girls; group; mean; new; parents; school; students; tucker; york", "summary": "Although most of the Knapps' coverage of children's jeers is not gender- specific, their description of Slam Books shows that girls are in charge: Girls 'keep' these books, but boys and girls alike write in them (79). The media have given more attention to boys' bullying than girls': a natural choice, since the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre and other school shootings were boys.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25129", "words": "6804", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Dawson, Janis", "title": "Expanding a Traditional Ballad: Tam Lin in the Picture Book Fantasies of Jane Yolen and Susan Cooper", "date": "2003", "keywords": "ballad; carterhaugh; child; cooper; fairy; jennet; lin; margaret; queen; tam; tam lin; yolen", "summary": "For young Tam Lin is there. In more recent times, the story has continued to inspire artists, writers, and musicians.3 Tam Lin has even entered the electronic age with an extensive web site devoted to the discussion and interpretation of the ballad.4 EXPANDING A TRADITIONAL BALLAD DAWSON Romance aside, however, Tam Lin is a dark, violent and highly complex story that in its various manifestations deals with rape, abortion, abduction, torture, and human sacrifice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25130", "words": "3452", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Edgette, J. Jospeh", "title": "Polar: The Most Famous Bear of Them All!", "date": "2003", "keywords": "bear; douglas; family; january; new; polar; schwarz; spedden; titanic; toy", "summary": "Since then it has sold more than 250,000 copies.23 To help launch the release of the book, the Strieff Company produced 1912 replicas of the Polar bear, together with a certificate of authenticity that the original was once owned by Douglas Spedden. NOTES 1 Stories From the Titanic: Douglas Spedden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25131", "words": "11094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Carpenter, Carole H.", "title": "In Our Own Image: The Child, Canadian Culture, and Our Future", "date": "2003", "keywords": "adult; canada; canadian; carpenter; childhood; children; cultural; culture; good; image; life; little; new; people; self; studies; time; today; toronto; world; york; young", "summary": "Most discourses pertaining to Canadian children come from Education and the Social Sciences (particularly Sociology and Psychology), and consider them largely in the context of various institutions, social processes or roles. Otherwise, virtually all analyses of 49 IN OUR OWN IMAGE CARPENTER culture in relation to Canadian children deal primarily with its acquisition through socialization and its operation in families, schools, community organizations and the like.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25132", "words": "11512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Lester, Neal A.", "title": "Life for Me Ain't No Crystal Stair; Readin', Writin', and Parental (Il)literacy in African American Children's Books", "date": "2003", "keywords": "african; american; children; crystal; douglass; family; father; illiterate; lester; life; literacy; mama; mother; new; read; reading; school; stair; story", "summary": "(4) After slavery ended, literacy continued to be a weapon of white supremacy used against black social and political participation: Literacy or other tests as a condition for voting were suspended by the Voting Rights Act in 1965 initially only in those states in which Congress found there had been pervasive discrimination against blacks in registration and in which literacy tests had been specifically designed to disfranchise racial minorities. As Violet J. Harris explains in African-American Conceptions of Literacy: A Historical Perspective, African Americans hold many of the same views [on the sacredness of education as white American citizens]; they, too, maintain an unstinting belief in the power of literacy to effect essential political, cultural, social, and economic change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25133", "words": "1201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Bronner, Simon J.", "title": "Ideas for Inquiry: \"Exhibiting Children\"", "date": "2003", "keywords": "children; culture; folklore; museum", "summary": "The lively response from the audience signaled many of the perspectives opened up by the theme of exhibiting children. The past-orientation of 103 IDEAS FOR INQUIRY: EXHIBITING CHILDREN BRONNER museums also received scrutiny, and discussion ensued on incorporating ethnographic documentation of contemporary culture, or children's views of their own culture, in museums and cultural exhibitions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25134", "words": "2462", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Sullivan III, C. W.", "title": "Annotated Bibliography: Children's Folklore Review, Volumes 1-24", "date": "2003", "keywords": "bibliography; children; discussion; examination; folklore; look; play; study; sullivan", "summary": "Carpenter, Carole H. Developing an Appreciation for the Cultural Significance of Child lore. 'Duck Under the Table': Traditional Verbal Sayings Addressed to Children by Adults.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25135", "words": "35079", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 24 (2002)", "date": "2002", "keywords": "adolescent; adults; age; american; behavior; boys; children; class; columbine; cruising; culture; day; fear; folklore; friends; games; goth; group; grove; hierarchy; high; home; jake; jerod; joshua; manson; material; middle; new; news; panic; people; photographs; pictures; redwood; rumor; school; shootings; society; staff; state; students; teasing; teenagers; thomas; time; toys; violence; way; year; youth", "summary": "Rather than a collection of photographs of toys and other items the boys' treasured, their photographs ranged from a dead rat to another boy's special friends (adults from the community who act as personal mentors), from pictures of other boys to pictures' of their toys, from the staff at 80 REDWOOD GROVE: YOUTH CULTURE IN A GROUP HOME Redwood Grove to Redwood Grove itself. Those pictures fall into three categories: those of themselves, those of other boys in the house, and those of adults such as staff and special friends.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25136", "words": "5745", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bronner, Simon J.", "title": "Introduction: Folklore Responds to Columbine and Adolescence", "date": "2002", "keywords": "adolescence; age; american; children; columbine; culture; folklore; group; new; percent; school; teenagers; theory; violence", "summary": "Experimental 57 59 53 50 Immature 29 32 45 47 Freakish 29 34 37 32 Alternative 58 77 42 41 Artistic 53 34 29 23 Normal 46 19 20 19 Stylish 29 25 13 16 Fun 34 27 15 10 Gay 12 10 16 9 Sexy 22 25 12 12 Tough 8 10 9 7 One way to read these responses is the large change among age groups as to the issue of whether the behavior is normal. Indeed, psychoanalytical interpretations have arguably been applied to adolescent legends and rituals more than they have to the traditions of other age groups because of the perception that anxieties especially need expression and resolution during adolescence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25137", "words": "5146", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Ellis, Bill", "title": "Hitler's Birthday: Rumor-Panics in the Wake of the Columbine Shootings", "date": "2002", "keywords": "birthday; bomb; columbine; high; hitler; panic; people; prom; rumor; school; students", "summary": "As with the 1987 panic, school proms were frequently mentioned as showdown dates. Coughlin High School, in Wilkes- Barre, escaped the bomb threats that affected local schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25138", "words": "3466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Conrad, Joann", "title": "The War on Youth: A Modern Oedipal Tragedy", "date": "2002", "keywords": "adult; children; crime; juvenile; oedipus; school; time; violence; youth", "summary": "Former California Governor, Pete Wilson, who sponsored Prop 21, spoke to voters' visceral fears of kids gone bad, and framed the initiative in clearly generational (and false) terms, saying: While adult crime has been falling dramatically, the same cannot be said for youth violence and gang violence (Ellis B4). This public belief in the growing problem of violent youth, which is dis- proportionate to current statistical information,2 and which is, furthermore, in contrast to most adults' actual experiences, should be seen as what Lawrence Grossberg calls an affective epidemic; a fetishized site, disconnected and disproportionate to its actual worth, ideological in intent, and fed by the daily economy of saturated panics (Acland 284).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25139", "words": "4551", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Berres, Allen", "title": "Everybody is Their Enemy: Goths, Spooky Kids, and the American School Shooting Panic", "date": "2002", "keywords": "article; black; cassie; columbine; goth; high; manson; marilyn; misty; mona; school", "summary": "A wave of anti-goth, anti-Marilyn Manson sentiment immediately followed this over-hasty association, motivated by the overwhelming fear that any member of these black-clad legions could turn out to be the next school shooter. Although the Trench Coat Mafia clique was confined to Columbine High School, journalists quickly pointed out many supposed links between this clique and two larger music fan cultures whose members occasionally wear black trench coats that are found in almost every American high school: goths and Marilyn Manson fans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25140", "words": "3677", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "McCormick, Charlie", "title": "A Fear of Adolescent Cruising: Adult Reactions to a Tradition That Won't Go Away", "date": "2002", "keywords": "class; cruising; fear; lake; menace; middle; performance; salt; strip", "summary": "A FEAR OF ADOLESCENT CRUISING: ADULT REACTIONS TO A TRADITION THAT WON'T GO AWAY CHARLIE MCCORMICK Growing up in Snyder, Texas, my friends and I spent our Friday and Satur- day nights cruising\u2014what we referred to as making the drag. I have been surprised, however, to find that in an increasing majority of locales around the nation, this folk performance has come to be regarded by many adults as the scourge of their community.1 I explain these differing adult perceptions of adolescent cruising by arguing that as adolescent cruising-one of the traditional and informal performances of white middleclass adolescents due to its socialization and enculturation potential (McCormick)-became appropriated by those outside the target audience (i.e. ethnic minorities and those presumed to be in the lower class) its legitimacy was attacked.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25141", "words": "10592", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Gelwicks, Jesse", "title": "Redwood Grove: Youth Culture in a Group Home", "date": "2002", "keywords": "behavior; boys; culture; group; grove; hierarchy; home; jake; jerod; photographs; redwood; staff; thomas", "summary": "Rather than a collection of photographs of toys and other items the boys' treasured, their photographs ranged from a dead rat to another boy's special friends (adults from the community who act as personal mentors), from pictures of other boys to pictures' of their toys, from the staff at 80 REDWOOD GROVE: YOUTH CULTURE IN A GROUP HOME Redwood Grove to Redwood Grove itself. Those pictures fall into three categories: those of themselves, those of other boys in the house, and those of adults such as staff and special friends.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25143", "words": "40939", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 23 No. 2 (2001)", "date": "2001", "keywords": "ability; age; ages; ambiguity; answers; bit; book; boys; children; comparison; comprehension; development; girls; group; language; level; mcdowell; metaphor comprehension; metaphors; nonsensory; olds; overall; person; question; responses; results; riddle answer; riddle comprehension; riddle image; riddle use; riddles; similarity; staunton; stories; study; table; task; type; winner; years; years girls", "summary": "Few studies have documented the development of riddle use and it would appear that none of the available studies have examined Children's ability to answer riddles. The numbers of riddles involving each type of riddling device used by girls and boys from each age group (n = 24). 8 years girls boys 9 years girls boys 10 years girls boys 11 years girls boys Grammatically- Based 2 1 1 5 1 5 1 0 Metaphorically- Based 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 Catches/ Metariddles 1 1 0 1 3 1 3 3 Anomaly/ Unnatural Facts 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 4 DISCUSSION 4.1 Introduction This study sought to explore the development of riddle use and comprehension in Irish school-aged children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25149", "words": "32713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Staunton, Sara", "title": "Riddle Use and Comprehension in Irish School-Aged Children: A Developmental Study", "date": "2001", "keywords": "age; answers; boys; children; comprehension; girls; group; language; metaphors; olds; overall; riddle answer; riddle comprehension; riddle image; riddle use; riddles; similarity; study; task; type; winner; years", "summary": "The types of riddle answer given by the girls and boys are compared in Tables 10 and 11 below: TABLE 10: An overall comparison of the types of riddle answer given by boys and girls in the study (n=24). The use of such a 'change of state' might indicate an emerging awareness that riddle answers are generally obscured from the sight of the riddlee in some way and that the use of logic might be necessary in order to solve the riddle.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25150", "words": "1077", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Stotter, Ruth", "title": "New Tales for Old: Folktales as Literary Fictions for Young Adults by Gail De Vos and Anna Altmann", "date": "2001", "keywords": "book; snow; stories; tales; white", "summary": "The authors' discussion also covers literary works based on Snow White, including three novels: Pictures of the Night by Adele Geras (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1992), The Godmother by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (New York: Ace, 1994) and Little Snow White, a graphic novel by David Wenzel and Douglas Wheeler (New York: Nantier, Beall and Minoustchine, 1995). The unique contribution of New Tales for Old is the listing and discussion of a wide range of contemporary adaptations\u2014movies, novels, operas, poetry, short stories, picture books, and Internet resources based on eight folktales: Cinderella, The Frog King, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25151", "words": "1150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Dworkin, Vicky", "title": "The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine by Barbara J. Suwyn, edited and with an Introduction by Natalie O. Kononenko", "date": "2001", "keywords": "book; stories; tales; ukrainian", "summary": "This sense of familiarity disappears when other stories are individualized. The variety of stories is chosen to appeal to a range of age levels and teachers and parents are urged to be selective in deciding which stories to share.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25152", "words": "1213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Burns, Anita", "title": "Norse Stories by Hamilton Wright Mabie", "date": "2001", "keywords": "balder; stories; tales", "summary": "He tells how our forefathers thought the world was created, how Odin was the ruler of this world, how Thor got his hammer, how Frey fell in love with the beautiful Gerd, how Idun's apples kept them young, how Loke always tried to ruin everything and finally succeeded by having Balder slain, an occurrence that ultimately introduced evil into the world and finally led to Ragnarok, or the end of the world. Norse Stories.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25153", "words": "798", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Thursby, Jacqueline", "title": "On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians by Michael B. Running Wolf and Patricia Clark Smith", "date": "2001", "keywords": "glous'gap; micmac; stories", "summary": "A master storyteller, he tells Micmac tales in libraries, schools, parks, and museums. Pen and ink illustrations by RunningWolf at the beginning of each story include traditional designs and symbols from Micmac quill and bead work, hide paintings, and writings on rock and birchbark (xii).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25154", "words": "1203", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Thursby, Jacqueline", "title": "Italian Fairy Tales by Lilia E. Romano", "date": "2001", "keywords": "book; fairy; story; tales", "summary": "These are stories of romance, mischief, and adventure suitable for all ages. Maria Tatar remarked that fairy tales circulate in multiple versions, reconfigured by each telling to form kaleidoscopic variations with distinctly different effects (ix).1 As I read these stories, I found sparkling twists and gentle turns of familiar threads with distinctly different effects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25156", "words": "1142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Thursby, Jacqueline", "title": "The Enchanted Wood and Other Tales from Finland by Norma J. Livo and George Livo", "date": "2001", "keywords": "book; finland; kalevala; national", "summary": "Often, according to Max Luthi2, descriptive prose is kept to a minimum in fairy tales. Other stories resonate with vaguely familiar folk practices from other parts of the northern world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25157", "words": "691", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Harris, Merla", "title": "Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood by Jane Yolen", "date": "2001", "keywords": "story; yolen", "summary": "She talks about the need for tough magic - the understanding that to receive, one has to give, and the importance of children hearing stories and reading books that confront the evils, fantasy, and real, and stand up to them. A selective bibliography of books and articles that have been very special, helpful stimulating companions and resources follow the essays.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25160", "words": "415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Wein, Elizabeth", "title": "Unaware to Her Ears: When the Storyteller Cannot Speak", "date": "2000", "keywords": "jared", "summary": "Yet Jared has inevitably picked up pieces of information since his ac\u00ad cident, and inevitably matured in his own way (he graduated from high school in 1989-with a real diploma, not merely a certificate Jared is able to express his needs and desires in a ,my that is both articulate and inventive.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25161", "words": "17245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 22 No. 2 (2000)", "date": "2000", "keywords": "adults; age; bare; behavior; boys; bums; childhood; children; chimneys; class; dirty; doctor; folklore; girls; jokes; kids; lanclos; materials; obscenity; paddy; play; rhyme; violence; wee; words", "summary": "Children Challenging Adults There is a distinct discourse within rude jokes concerning challenging authority, as embodied in a variety of different adult characters. Adult anxieties about child obscenity are not simply a result of generalized cultural constructs dictating proper childlike behavior, of course.46 Parents in particular can be concerned because such words can be interpreted as fighting words, and lead to violence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25162", "words": "15736", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Lancos, Donna M.", "title": "Bare Bums and Wee Chimneys: Rudeness and Defining the Line Between Child and Adult", "date": "2000", "keywords": "adults; age; behavior; boys; childhood; children; class; dirty; doctor; folklore; girls; jokes; kids; materials; obscenity; paddy; play; rhyme; violence; wee; words", "summary": "Children Challenging Adults There is a distinct discourse within rude jokes concerning challenging authority, as embodied in a variety of different adult characters. Adult anxieties about child obscenity are not simply a result of generalized cultural constructs dictating proper childlike behavior, of course.46 Parents in particular can be concerned because such words can be interpreted as fighting words, and lead to violence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25163", "words": "4000", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Edgette, J. Jospeh", "title": "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep...: Symbols and Their Meaning on Children's Gravemakers", "date": "1999", "keywords": "child; children; death; edgette; life; marker; sleep; symbols; use", "summary": "For children, these sites became even more important. With the place of the child in the family and the new religious shift, children who had died were actually being adored in the cemeteries (Sloane) through all kinds of memorial structures and new child-specific symbols.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25164", "words": "3076", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Tucker, Elizabeth", "title": "I Hate You, You Hate Me: Children's Responses to Barney the Dinosaur", "date": "1999", "keywords": "adults; barney; children; hiv; new; parodies; song; york", "summary": "Parodies of Barney songs began to emerge when the show achieved national recognition. These parodies peaked in the fall of 1993; at that time, children on playgrounds across the United States delighted in sharing Barney songs they had heard, and some children also enjoyed inventing new versions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25165", "words": "3141", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Stotter, Ruth", "title": "Trick or Treat: Coyote in Children's Picture Books", "date": "1999", "keywords": "american; book; children; coyote; indian; native; people; stories; story", "summary": "Interestingly, the illustrator's comments are more informed: The Pacific NW Indians who told Coyote stories lived primarily in plateau areas of Washington, Oregon, and in northern California (Goldin NP). A kindergarten student asked storyteller Susan Strauss after hearing several Coyote stories, Just who is Coyote?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25170", "words": "3557", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "65", "author": "Sherman, Josepha", "title": "Gopher Guts and Army Trucks: The Modern Evolution of Children's Folk Rhymes", "date": "1999", "keywords": "children; informants; new; play; rhymes; time; version; york", "summary": "While racist rhymes were very much a part of children's folk culture until the mid-1960s, we collected no racist rhymes from 19 Sherman anyone under the age of fifteen; this wasn't from a reluctance on the informants' part to repeat such rhymes but, in most cases, from a genuine lack of knowledge by the informants that older, racist versions existed of such now innocuous rhymes as Eenie meenie minie mo/Catch a tiger by the toe. This paper is an offshoot of fieldwork done from 1992 to 1994 in the United States and Canada during the preparation of a book, Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Children, co-written with T.K.F. Weisskopf and published by August House in 1995.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25172", "words": "2334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Kj\u00e6r, Bj\u00f8rg", "title": "Childhood Narrated and Negotiated: Children's, Parents' and Teachers' Views on Childhood", "date": "1998", "keywords": "childhood; children; parents; teachers; way", "summary": "OCR Document CHILDHOOD NARRATED AND NEGOTIATED: CHILDREN'S, PARENTS' AND TEACHERS' VIEWS ON CHILDHOOD Bj\u00f8rg Kj\u00e6r In this paper I shall demonstrate how different approaches to childhood interact with the childhood narratives of children, parents, and school teachers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25173", "words": "3261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Conrad, JoAnn", "title": "Bedtime Stories", "date": "1998", "keywords": "bed; conrad; mommy; stories; story; time", "summary": "PETRABORG\u2014 Conrad Fredril, on May 15,12:20 PM at Alta Bates Hospital, to parents Guy Petraborg and JoAnn Conrad of Berkeley. Conrad sighs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25174", "words": "414", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bishop, Julia C.", "title": "The State of Play: A Report on the Conference", "date": "1998", "keywords": "children; play", "summary": "In addition, there was a plethora of stimulating papers on such topics as the effects of the physical environment on imaginative play and games, the influence of the media on playground games, children's story telling, historical aspects of the study of play, and children's music. OCR Document THE STATE OF PLAY: A REPORT ON THE CONFERENCE Julia C. Bishop", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25175", "words": "18531", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 21 No. 1 (1998)", "date": "1998", "keywords": "american; boys; century; childhood; children; conrad; cultural; diagram; folklore; form; game; gender; girls; hopscotch; hopscotch boys; male; new; order; parents; participants; play; practice; production; rheenen; rules; school; sex; space; stories; structure; time; use; van; way; women; world; york", "summary": "Like boys who are stigmatized as sissies for playing hopscotch, girls entering the arena of modern sport within the twentieth century have had to deflect accusations of lesbianism. Concerning popular culture, in two of the Best Picture nominees for the 1996 Academy Awards, The English Patient (which won) and Shine, young girls are 25 Van Rheenen depicted playing hopscotch.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25181", "words": "2079", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Fladenmuller, Kathryn S.", "title": "Index to the Children's Folklore Review 1978-1997", "date": "1997", "keywords": "children; fairy; folklore; paper; play; study; university; variations", "summary": "The immature social and cognitive skills of young children explain their brand of prototypical folklore which imitates more developed formulas of folklore. Examines an episode of play between children, observing the statics and dynamics of their interaction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25182", "words": "22194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 19 No. 2 (1997)", "date": "1997", "keywords": "american; ballad; camp; camping; children; dean; dining; dining hall; fairy; folk; folklore; food; girl; girl scout; girl scouting; hall; house; indian; iroquois; janet; like; lin; literature; new; original; sacajawea; scouting; scouts; section; staff; standards; tale; tam; tam lin; world; york", "summary": "Playing Indian at Girl Scout Camp Playing Indian has a long tradition at mainstream American camps, and Girl Scout camps are no exception. Camp Sacajawea is one of many Girl Scout camps in the United States by the same name; New Jersey alone holds two Camp Sacajaweas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25189", "words": "1989", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "70", "author": "Davey, Gwenda Heed", "title": "What's for Dinner'! \"Duck Under the Table\": Traditional Verbal Sayings Addressed to Children by Adults", "date": "1996", "keywords": "australia; children; family; folklore; sayings", "summary": "As well as threats such as the above, verbal folklore used by adults with children includes homilies such as: Don't care was made to care, Don't care was hung; Don't care was put in a pot, And made to hold his tongue. Toys (e.g. peg dolls) Tales or modern legends (told to older children e.g. concerning public toilets or cinemas and white slavery) Superstitions (e.g. don't walk on the cracks in the footpath)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25190", "words": "2826", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "63", "author": "Sullivan III, C. W.", "title": "Knowing What Children Believe: Believing What Children Know", "date": "1996", "keywords": "adult; children; culture; folklore; home; mechling", "summary": "Believing What Children Know C.W. Sullivan III Children's Folklore is an age-bounded folklore which circulates among children up to about age twelve. Mechling suggests that folklorists who collect from children\u2014or, perhaps worse, those who collect from other adults their memories of what they did when they were children-fail to recognize that they are collecting materials from members of a significantly different culture and must proceed accordingly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25192", "words": "5691", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Johnson, Sharon Peregrine", "title": "The Hare and the Tortoise Race Eleven Variations", "date": "1996", "keywords": "deception; hare; hedgehog; rabbit; race; tale; tortoise; turtle; whale", "summary": "The following tales are examples of this type: Cherokee Tale, Seminole Tale, Uncle Remus Tale, American Hedgehog Tale, African Reedbuck Tale, German Hedgehog Tale, and Japanese Whale Tale. The slower creature is ridiculed, pestered, or annoyed by the faster animal (Seminole Tale, Aesop Tale, American Hedgehog Tale, and German Hedgehog Tale).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25193", "words": "3812", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Beresin, Ann Richman", "title": "Sui Generis: Mock Violence in an Urban School Yard", "date": "1996", "keywords": "ball; children; games; new; play; school; sui; wall; york", "summary": "Mock violent games, among both boys and girls, appeared as hitting, pushing and slamming games, ranging in violence from the overt, although playful, to the covert. The genre of mock violent games includes a range of other classic folk game genres: wrestling games, tagging games, and handball games.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25194", "words": "6", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "102", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 18 No. 1 (1995)", "date": "1995", "keywords": "vol", "summary": "Vol. 18 No. 1 Fall 95.pdf", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25198", "words": "8226", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "55", "author": "Samuelson, Sue", "title": "A Review of the Distinctive Genres of Adolescent Folklore: Edited and Introduced by Simon J. Bronner", "date": "1995", "keywords": "adolescent; american; behavior; children; folklore; games; genres; high; indiana; jokes; journal; legend; new; samuelson; school; stories; studies; study; teenagers; university", "summary": "She was indeed an appropriate figure to discuss adolescent folklore in a project surveying the field of children's folklore sponsored by the Children's Folklore Section. Sue's paper on adolescent folklore had a significant message to offer about the need for consideration of folklore genres that char- acterize adolescence as a distinctive phase of life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25200", "words": "5126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Grider, Sylvia Ann", "title": "Dorothy Howard: Pioneer Collector of Children's Folklore", "date": "1994", "keywords": "american; children; dorothy; folklore; howard; new; play; research; rhymes; study; university; york", "summary": "8 Dorothy Howard All this is folklore-transmitted from children to children without benefit of printed book or adult sponsor. As she recalls in a personal, unpublished memoir: From 1930-44 I taught in public schools in New York and New Jersey, teaching immigrant chil- dren and children of immigrant parents from Nor- way, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Germany, and Italy and Greek-speaking children from Turkey, to- gether with those whose immigrant forbears may 3 Grider have come to America on the Mayflower or on a Dutch ship to New Amsterdam.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25201", "words": "4340", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Carpenter, Carole H.", "title": "Developing and Appreciation for the Cultural Significance of Childlore", "date": "1994", "keywords": "canada; canadian; childhood; children; culture; experiences; folklore; identity; newfoundland; traditions", "summary": "Besides, some of the servicemen were black\u2014the personification of the Man in black, the Stranger, or Foreigner who occupied a boogey-man/ frightening figure role in Newfoundland childhood cultural tradition, as documented by John Widdowson in If You Don't Be Good (see especially page 275). It might benefit our understanding of the acquisition and dynamic operation of culture (whether indi- vidual, group or national) if we were to consider seriously the 19 Carpenter possibility of childhood cultural experiences having a similar formative influence on each person as a cultural being.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25202", "words": "8936", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 16 No. 2 (1994)", "date": "1994", "keywords": "book; children; fairy; folklore; joke; literature; man; meeting; new; page; prince; rachel; section; stories; story; tales; time; university", "summary": "So what are we to make of postmodern renderings of fairy stories in which chaos is the order of the day? The message is clear: every story is a hodgepodge of other stories; we all have our own ways of piecing the same materials together.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25203", "words": "3893", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Stone, Kay", "title": "Child as Story-Maker", "date": "1994", "keywords": "child; children; joke; rachel; stories; story", "summary": "There are already studies of children at various ages telling stories: these present a broad spectrum of ages and genres, the emphasis being on the development of verbal skills (See Sutton- Smith; Pitcher and Prelinger; Chukovsky). Each of these studies has been carefully conceived and carried out, and each includes abun- dant examples gathered from dozens of children over a stretch of time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25230", "words": "13811", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 15 No. 2 (1993)", "date": "1993", "keywords": "aesop; alvin; american; book; carnes; characters; children; fable; folklore; harpercollins; illus; information; life; lion; literature; lobel; moral; new; number; prize; section; set; stories; tales; tradition; university", "summary": "His fables are not overtly traditional fables or anti-fables; that is, they are not refashioned tellings of traditional common fables, or parodies of such, but they carry much of fable tradition with them. Lobel's fables are bound to a certain extent by the traditions of the literary fable, but they use various folklore traditions very effectively and resonate with various harmonics from traditional fables and other narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25235", "words": "7697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Carnes, Pack", "title": "Arnold Lobel's Fables and Traditional Fable Features", "date": "1993", "keywords": "animals; arnold; carnes; characters; fable; folklore; lion; literature; lobel; moral; point; set; tradition", "summary": "His fables are not overtly traditional fables or anti-fables; that is, they are not refashioned tellings of traditional common fables, or parodies of such, but they carry much of fable tradition with them. Lobel's fables are bound to a certain extent by the traditions of the literary fable, but they use various folklore traditions very effectively and resonate with various harmonics from traditional fables and other narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25265", "words": "5147", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Bronner, Simon J.", "title": "Expressing and Creating Ourselves in Childhood: A Commentary", "date": "1992", "keywords": "american; bronner; chamberlain; children; creativity; culture; folklore; liver; narrative; new; story; tradition", "summary": "Editor of the Journal of American Folklore from 1900-1907, he promoted child study in the under- standing of culture as the pivot that allows for examination of yesterday and to-morrow, for children as a semiliterate society inherit the oral tradition of the past and use it to shape the future. If American children do not recognize them as 51 Bronner stories, then they may employ their structures in their own playful expressions using repetition and rhythm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25266", "words": "11571", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 14 No. 2 (1992)", "date": "1992", "keywords": "cassette; category; century; chance; childhood; children; fighting; folklore; games; history; meeting; modem; new; past; physical; play; prize; review; role; section; skill; smith; songs; sports; sutton", "summary": "Might it not be more relevant to have a category in which to describe the amazing diversity of agencies in traditional games. Although not specifically relevant to traditional games, it is useful to recognize that although the ball has become the central agency for profes- sional sports in modem society, the diversity of agencies for children in play now operates largely under the quite different guise of commercial toys.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25267", "words": "6846", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Sutton-Smith, Brian", "title": "Tradition from the Perspective of Children's Games", "date": "1992", "keywords": "century; chance; children; fighting; games; history; modem; new; physical; play; skill; smith; sutton", "summary": "Might it not be more relevant to have a category in which to describe the amazing diversity of agencies in traditional games. Although not specifically relevant to traditional games, it is useful to recognize that although the ball has become the central agency for profes- sional sports in modem society, the diversity of agencies for children in play now operates largely under the quite different guise of commercial toys.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25270", "words": "19064", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 14 No. 1 (1991)", "date": "1991", "keywords": "adult; american; book; boys; canada; canadian; car; children; columbia; counting; folklore; games; german; girls; group; haug; informants; legend; legend trip; library; new; night; objects; old; passage; paul; play; research; ritual; road; school; site; society; songs; state; study; teenagers; teens; time; town; toys; trip; university; wall; way; year", "summary": "Legend trip sites are often physically remote, and the trips Ellis surveyed are opportunities for illegal activities like under-age drinking, taking drugs, vandalism, and illicit sexual behavior. Legend trip sites, in addition to having a rural setting, are usually an extended distance from the teenagers' homes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25274", "words": "1848", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Fowke, Edith", "title": "Books for Children", "date": "1991", "keywords": "book; canadian; children; songs; toronto", "summary": "My other general anthology, The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, was prepared with the hope of making Canadian songs better known in Britain and the United States, and allowed me to present a substantial number of Ontario songs I had collected. All the items were from oral tradition, collected in 1958-1964 from Canadian children plus a few from adult friends who remembered them from their youth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25275", "words": "14454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Editor, CFR", "title": "Vol 13 No. 2 (1991)", "date": "1991", "keywords": "alice; ambivalence; american; belief; children; claus; custom; example; fairy; folklore; gary; mary; meeting; members; mouse; new; performance; prize; ritual; santa; section; simon; teeth; text; tooth; tooth fairy; university; wells; york", "summary": "Other children express their ambivalence through stories or through verbalized musings that at first 8 Santa Claus glance may appear to contain logical inconsistencies, but which I think actually illustrate this push-pull attribute of opposing emotional feelings. Furthermore, ambivalence may be a dominant feature in younger children's accounts because they have not yet learned to deny their hope or desire that such fantasy figures exist; older children, on the other hand, may not express ambivalence even if they feel it, perhaps because they are aware of the strong social assessment regarding age-appropriate behavior.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-25286", "words": "3597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Riley, Linda", "title": "Extremes: How Girls Play Slaughter, How Boys Play Slaughter at Valley Oak Elementary", "date": "1990", "keywords": "boys; children; girls; group; play; slaughter", "summary": "OCR Document Extremes: How Girls Play Slaughter, How Boys Play Slaughter at Valley Oak Elementary Linda Riley Extremes A little boy once played so loud That the thunder up in the thunderclouds, Said,Since I can't be heard, why, then, I'll never, never thunder again! The early play of girls was segregated and focused on status and marriage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26416", "words": "498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "Panels at AFS", "date": "1979", "keywords": "chair; folklore; october", "summary": "For further information, write: American Folklore Society 1703 New HampshireAvenue NW Washington,DC 20009 0 The deadline for papers for the special children's issue of Western Folklore is December 15, 1979.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26437", "words": "1487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "Minutes, Children's Folklore Section Meeting, 1979", "date": "1979", "keywords": "children; folklore; meeting; newsletter; section", "summary": "At the October 1979 meeting of the Children's Folklore Section in Los Angeles, the annual subscrip- tion ra te for the Newsletter was set at $5.00/ year. Any person wishing to subscribe to the Newsletter should send a check for $5.00 to: Gary Alan Fine, Chair Children's Folklore Section Department of Sociology Universityof Minnesota Minneapolis,Minnesota55455 CHILDREN'S FOLKLORE SECTION CONSTITUTION .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26457", "words": "1585", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "79", "author": "Fine, Gary Alan", "title": "The Children's Glossary", "date": "1981", "keywords": "adj; boy", "summary": "Penis, male genitals (SH) n Stupid boy (SH) adj Crazy, insane (sometimes with violent overtones) (BV,HW,BP,SH) adj Good, excellent (also mint city') (BP) n Homosexual (see Homo'') (BP,SH) n Small boy (MB) n Ugly boy (short for monkey) (HW) Bruise which comes from one boy holding another's arm and rapping it (a prank) Effeminate boy (HW) Trick, deceive (MB) n Disliked or ugly girl (from prostitute) (SH) n Effeminate boy; homosexual (HW) n Boy who is considered excessively wild; boy whodrinks or smokes (negative implica- tion) (BP) n Disliked boy (possible effeminate implica- tion pussy) (BV,BP,SH) n Disliked boy (possible effeminate implica- tion; derivation from slang for cunnilingus) (BP,SH) 26.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26513", "words": "1518", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "74", "author": "Bronner, Simon; Wertz, Hannelore", "title": "Current Research: Selections: A Collection of Childlore from Pennsylvania High School Students", "date": "1983", "keywords": "children; folklore; grade; section; source", "summary": "Section members with comments or additional suggestions should contact Simon Bronner (Folklore and American Studies, Pen- nsylvania State University, Middletown, PA 17057). Priscilla Ord (R.D. #9; Box 511-E, Carlisle, PA 17013) reminded Section members to send her items for the Children's Folklore Bibliography.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26536", "words": "673", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "Sutton-Smith, Brian; Mechling, Jay; Johnson, Tom", "title": "A Handbook of Children's Folklore", "date": "1985", "keywords": "children; folklore; games; research", "summary": "5. Gary Fine: Methodological problems of collecting folklore from children. Jay Mechling: The folklore of children and adolescents in total institutions: Boarding schools, children's hospitals, and correctional facilties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26542", "words": "456", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "Section Meeting", "date": "1985", "keywords": "children; folklore; october", "summary": "C.W. Sullivan III, Editor English Department, East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 27834-4353 The Children's Folklore Newsletter, published three times a year, is sent to all members of the Children's Folklore Section. I @[P~@~ffi~~~~lJ~~@I ISSN 0739-5558 Published by East Carolina University Printed at The ECU Print Shop ffiTI TIDO~~@rn~ffi~@ ~~~TI~~@ Paper Session #71: The Folklore of Children and Adolescents, Saturday, October 19.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26618", "words": "589", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.; Ord, Priscilla", "title": "Announcements", "date": "1987", "keywords": "children; folklore; paper", "summary": "Students may submit their own papers; instructors are asked to encourage students with eligible papers to enter the competition. Papers published by students within the same time frame are also eligible.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26640", "words": "389", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "The Opie Prize", "date": "1987", "keywords": "children; folklore", "summary": "8 c. W. Sullivan III, Editor Children's Folklore Newsletter Department of English East Carolina University Greenville, N.C. 27858-4353 the hildren's FOLKLORE NEWSLETTER Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 110 Greenville, N.C. Edited volumes, collections of folklore, and authored studies published in English during 1986 or 1987 are eligible.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26647", "words": "3931", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "58", "author": "Lapp, Dean M.", "title": "The Newell Prize 1983: \"A Systematic Investigation of Jump-Rope Rhymes: Computer Applications for Field Collected Cultural Material\"", "date": "1988", "keywords": "analysis; children; content; folklore; girls; jump; page; rhymes; rope; study; word", "summary": "I, pages 3-4; III:3, page 3; IV: I, pages 3-4; IV:2, page 3; IV:3, pages 4-5 Graduate Program: Children's Literature and the Imagination, University of Pennsylvania, Diana Kelly-Byrne, VII:3 page 3 Membership List: 1979, 1:1, pages 1-3; 1980, III: I: I, pages 6-9 II:!, page 4 IV:I, page 6 IV:2, page 2 V:I, page 2 VI:2, page 2 VII:2, page 2 Bibliographies of Children's Folklore, Specific: Adolescent Folklore Studies and Collections, Sue Samuelson, V:2, pages 2-3 Australian Children's Folklore Publications, June Factor, X:3, page 7 Rhymes of Children: A Select Bibliography of English Language Materials, Barbara Orbach, IV:I, pages 5-6 Studies in German, Rainer Wehse, IX:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26649", "words": "1276", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "23", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "Children's Folklore Section Membership", "date": "1988", "keywords": "avenue; box; college; department; east; english; folklore; library; p.o; state; street; university; west", "summary": "SUNY-New Paltz New Paltz, NY 12561 Alvin Schwartz 505 Prospect Ave Princeton, NJ 08540 Elizabeth Simons 969 Hilldale Ave Berkeley, CA 94708 Ruth Stotter 2244 Vistazo E. Tiburon, CA 94920 C. W. Sullivan III English Department East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 Brian Sutton-Smith Department of Ed ucational Psychology School of Education University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19174 Ray Turner P.O. Box 333 Ary, KY 41712 Richard Van Dongen Curriculum & Instruction College of Education University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 Barbara Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative Texas Tech University P.O. Box 4185 Lubbock, TX 79409 Hilda Webb 2833 Hyde Park Place Cincinnati, OH 45208 Mark I. West English Department UNC-Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 William A. Wilson English Department Utah State University Logan, UT 84322 ***** Central Serial Records University of Kentucky Libraries Lexington, KY 40506 Cooper Library Serials Department Clemson, SC 29631 Folklore Archives English Department University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 Indiana University Libraries Serials Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47407 Museum of International Folk Art Museum of New Mexico Box 2087 Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087 Joyner Library East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 Ralph Brown Daughton Library Serials Dept/ LABW9561 Mell Street Auburn University Alabama 36849 Wheelock College Library 132 Riverway Boston, MA 02215 Gift & Exchange Copies Association of Folklorists in the South Folk & Intercultural Studies Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 4210 I Blue Ridge Institute Newsletter Ferrum College Ferrum, VA 24088 Children's Literature Quarterly Perry Nodelman, Editor English Department Univ. Manitoba Canada R3B 2E9 Center for Southern Folklore Jude Duffell 1216 Peabody Avenue P.O. Box 40105 Memphis, TN 38105 Folk Arts Coordinator Folklife Program State Arts Council, Rm 640 Jim Thorpe Building Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4987 Folklore Archive 448 Purdy Library Wayne State University Detroit, M I 48202 Folkpatterns (Newsletter)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26682", "words": "596", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "59", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "AFS--Philadelphia", "date": "1989", "keywords": "children; folklore; meeting", "summary": "the hildren's FOLKLORE REVIEW c. W. Sullivan Ill, Editor English Department, East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353 The Children's Folklore Review, published three times a year, is sent to all members of the Children's Folklore Section. Children's Folklore II 21 October 1989 Forum: The Future Agendafor Child Study and the Implications for the Study of Children s Folklore Brian Sutton-Smith (chair), Michael Zuckerman, Viviana Zelitzer, Richard Schweder, William Keson, and John Broughton.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26683", "words": "1328", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "37", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "Children's Folklore Section Membership", "date": "1989", "keywords": "ave; box; college; department; east; english; folk; folklore; library; museum; new; state; street; university; west", "summary": "Claremont, CA 91711 Nancy J. Johnson 2900 Northwind Drive, #515 East Lansing, M I 48823 Thomas Johnson Chico Folklore Archive California State University Chico, CA 95929-0400 Marilyn Jorgensen 8083 Caribbean Way Sacramento, CA 95826 Judith E. Lokenvitz Program Assistant Museum of International Folk Art P.O. Box 2087 Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087 Amy McClure 8751 SUNY-New Paltz New Paltz, NY 12561 Alvin Schwartz 505 Prospect Ave Princeton, NJ 08540 Elizabeth Simons 969 Hilldale Ave Berkeley, CA 94708 Doris Smith 338 South Road Bedford, M A 01730 Dr. Willie Smythe Folk Arts Coordinator State Arts Council-Room 640 Jim Thorpe Building Oklahoma City, OK Ruth Stotter 2244 Vistazo E. Tiburon, CA 94920 C W. Sullivan III English Department East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 Brian Sutton-Smith Department of Ed ucational Psychology School of Education University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19174 Ray Turner P.O. Box 333 Ary, KY 41712 Richard Van Dongen Curriculum & Instruction College of Education University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 Barbara Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative Texas Tech University P.O. Box 4185 Lubbock, TX 79409 Hilda Webb 2833 Hyde Park Place Cincinnati, OH 45208 Elizabeth Wein 5933 Wayne Ave #2R Philadelphia, PA Mark I. West English Department UNC-Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 Joyner Library East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 Ralph Brown Daughton Library Serials Deptj LABW9561 Mell Street Auburn University Alabama 36849 Wheelock College Library 132 Riverway Boston, MA 02215 Gift & Exchange Copies Association of Folklorists in the South Folk & Intercultural Studies Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 4210 I Blue Ridge Institute Newsletter Ferrum College Ferrum, VA 24088 Center for Southern Folklore Jude Duffell 1216 Peabody Avenue P.O. Box 40 105 Memphis, TN 38105 Folk Arts Coordinator Folklife Program State Arts Council, Rm 640 Jim Thorpe Building Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4987 Folklore Archive 448 Purdy Library Wayne State University Detroit, M I 48202 Folkpatterns (Newsletter)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26687", "words": "839", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Rosenberg, Jan", "title": "International Playground Association", "date": "1989", "keywords": "adventure; bracelets; children", "summary": "The tradition of wearing and giving friendship bracelets will certainly continue among children for generations to come. I concentrated this research on those friendship bracelets made by children from grade two to grade nine, but the bracelets now in fashion are worn by people age six through forty and are made by people in the same age groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26688", "words": "839", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "CFS Members' Publications", "date": "1989", "keywords": "adventure; bracelets; children", "summary": "The tradition of wearing and giving friendship bracelets will certainly continue among children for generations to come. I concentrated this research on those friendship bracelets made by children from grade two to grade nine, but the bracelets now in fashion are worn by people age six through forty and are made by people in the same age groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-26689", "words": "660", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "69", "author": "Sullivan III, C.W.", "title": "Books, Books, Books, Books", "date": "1989", "keywords": "new; oxford", "summary": "younger readers while retaining the power of poetry of the old The Island of the Mighty is perhaps the most disappointing of stories (jacket blurb). Except The Curse of the Ring is a retelling of the Volsunga Saga, for Reynard the Fox, which has an afterword that discusses the probably more familiar as Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas, contain- source materials as well as the history and nature of the Reynard ing the stories of Sigurd - the forging of the sword, the slaying of stories, not one of these books has any secondary materials in it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-39019", "words": "3732", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bauman, Richard", "title": "The Texas Children's Folklore Project: A Retrospective", "date": "2024", "keywords": "american; children; development; folklore; project; research; review; texas; vol", "summary": "The Early Childhood Program was charged with research and program development for children in kindergarten through third grade, roughly, 5-9 years old. How did children acquire and manifest the knowledge and ability to use these forms in socially appropriate and intelligible ways?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cfr-39027", "words": "43191", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Barker, CFR Editor, K. Brandon ", "title": "Children's Folklore Review: Special Issue: The Texas Children's Folklore Project", "date": "2024", "keywords": "american; austin; barker; bauman; black; boy; brandon; chicano children; children; cross; cultural; culture; development; educational; ethnography; folklore project; folklore review; forms; girls; group; handclaps; hands; knock; language; learning; mack; mcdowell; miss; new; pattern; performance; play; press; rectangle; research; review children; review vol; rhythm; riddles; riddling; routines; sally; school; speech; taxonomy; texas children; time; university; verse; vol; words; yoka", "summary": "A small group of children, female and male, who were friends in and out of school provided a very rich body of taboo material for me, https://doi.org/10.14434/cfr.2024.vol42.39020 52 CHILDREN\u2019S FOLKLORE REVIEW Children\u2019s Folklore Review, Vol. 42, No. 1 \u00b7 /doi.org/10.14434/cfr.2024.vol42.39020/ most of which is characteristic of children 6-10 years of age. Children\u2019s play across the whole spectrum of verbal and non-verbal genres exhibits this ordering facet, and one might speculate that without the informal, entertaining format provided by the ludic genres, children might acquire only with great difficulty the fundamental cognitive and interactional abilities required of adults in their society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]