Buy this book on-line OPIE,IONA: : The People in the PlaygroundUK.OXFORD.OUP,1993. ISBN 0198112653.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,240pp
includes index.
For nearly forty years Iona Opie worked with her late husband Peter on a notable series of books on the traditional lore of childhood.As part of the fieldwork from
1970 onwards,she visited the local school playground every week.The children accepted her as a regular feature of the playground,a harmless collector of jokes and games.Her aim,however,was to provide the living context of school-lore,rather than the lore itself.She achieved this by writing down events exactly as they happened,and conversations exactly as they
were spoken.The result is a startingly honest portrait of children at play,at once charming and hilarious,alarming and poignant,and full of infectious vitality.
We see the games seasons as they come and
go,watch ephemeral amusements being devised and forgotten,and see how school-lore evolves and is transmitted.Much fundamental human behaviour is recorded:
the differences in attitude between the sexes;the boys' irrevocable devotion to football and fighting,and their innate kindness;the art of story-telling;the friendships and the enmities;the excited interest in sex,the diversity of characters;and above all,the hilarity which pervades the playground,creating entertainment out of trivialities.
In the uninhibited language and astonishing inventiveness chronicled here we recognise the games and jokes of previous generations;at once a revelation and a reassurance of continuity,this book offers a unique insight into the world of the child.
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