Zig Zag Zoo and Other Games
The Oral Tradition of Children of Asian Origin in Keighley, West Yorkshire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5970594 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mavis Curtis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-82 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/flk.1999.38.1.71 |
| OpenAlex | W2002504178 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Children's folklore, of which games and rhymes are a major part, is usually passed on orally, sometimes from adults to children, but often from older children to younger ones, both traditions being important if children are to maintain a lively oral heritage. Child to child transmission relies on several strands for its maintenance: contact between different ages of children, time spent by children with their peers away from adult interference, time to copy, practise and perfect techniques and rhymes. During the course of my research into children's oral tradition, which was a comparative study of eight year olds in nine schools in Keighley, I found that schools with an overwhelmingly Asian population showed differences in their play culture from the mainstream. It seems appropriate therefore, before an analysis of that culture, to give a description of the community, in order to identify some of the factors which may have played a part in establishing the play culture of these children
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Genealogy · Geography · Visual arts · West Yorkshire · Cultural Identity and Representation · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |