Peter Opie

Datos Biográficos

ID245929
NOMBREPeter Opie
NOMBRESPeter
APELLIDOOpie
FIRMAOPIE P
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS20
TOTAL DE CITAS91
TOTAL COMO AUTOR20
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1949
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN1986
ÍNDICE H3

  • The Singing Game

    Brian Sutton‐smith, Brian Sutton-Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1986

  • Children's games in street and playground

    Iona Opie, Iona Archibald Opie et al.BOOKChildren's Games in Street and…1984

    Part 1 Starting a game - the preliminaries to a game can be a sport in themselves: avoidance of disliked role - players take action, when a game is proposed, to exempt themselves from starting in the principal role He-names - the name of the player who has a certain power in the game is subject to regional variation selection made by chance - appointment of a player to the disliked role felt to be fairest if made a matter of luck Odd out - a meth…

  • Children's Games in Street and Playground

    G E Macfarlane, George Macfarlane et al.REVIEWMan1971

    5. Hunting games Games in which there are no boundaries, in which both pursuers and pursued generally operate in teams, and in which the pursued generally have to give some assistance to their pursuers HARE AND HOUNDS. JACK, JACK, SHINE A LIGHT. WILL O' THE WISP. TRACKING. PAPER CHASE. STALKING. HOIST THE GREEN FLAG. 6. Racing games Races, and chases over set courses, in which fleetness of foot is not necessarily the decisive factor TYPES OF RACE…

  • Children's Derogatory Epithets

    Peter OpieARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1970Citada por: 1

  • Children's games in street and playground

    Iona Archibald Opie, Peter OpieBOOKChildren's Games in Street and…1969Citada por: 61

  • Proposals for a Dictionary, Arranged on Historical Principles, of English Traditional Lore

    Peter OpieARTICLEFolklore1964Citada por: 1

  • The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

    Sheldon L Messinger, Iona Opie et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1964Citada por: 6

  • The Tentacles of Tradition

    Peter OpieARTICLEFolklore1963Citada por: 1

    IT has long been proverbial that he who has a name as an early riser may lie a-bed till noon. The power of reputation is such that, even in the present day, desperately ill people will travel to Harley Street, and knock at one of the doors at random in the pathetic expectation that they will now be cured. Similarly, the name of Gretna Green has acquired such fame, on the Continent as well as in England, that runaway couples continue to reside the…

  • The Aberdeen Meeting of the British Association

    Peter OpieARTICLEFolklore1963

  • The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

    Beatrice B Whiting, Beatrice Whiting et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1961

  • Folklore Notes

    Peter Opie, Beatrice BlackwoodARTICLEFolklore1960

  • The Linguistics of Folklore

    Arthur Minton, Iona Opie et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1960

  • The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

    M M Lewis, Iona Opie et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1960

  • The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

    Basil Bernstein, Peter Opie et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1960Citada por: 19

  • The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

    P J Wyatt, Patricia Wyatt et al.REVIEWWestern Folklore1960

    First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, Opies bring to life rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been…

  • The Present State of Folklore Studies in England

    Peter OpieARTICLEFolklore1957Citada por: 1

  • Other Recent Publications

    Peter OpieARTICLEFolklore1956

  • England, the Great Undiscovered

    Peter OpieARTICLEFolklore1954Citada por: 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

    Dorothy Howard, Dorothy Mills Howard et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1952

    A detailed reference book to the histories of more than 500 rhymes and songs, with their parallels, first appearances, origins, and variations. The Opies are unrivalled as authorities on the folklore of childhood

  • I Saw Esau

    Archer Taylor, Peter Opie et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1949