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Title	Play and games in Southern Harbour : a performance oriented study of children's activities in a Newfoundland outport community
Author	Hohmann, Delf Maria, 1958-
Description	Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994. Folklore
Date	1993
Pagination	xv, 262 leaves : ill., map.
Subject	Games--Newfoundland and Labrador--Southern Harbour; Play--Newfoundland and Labrador--Southern Harbour; Folklore--Performance; Southern Harbour (N.L.)--Social life and customs
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Folklore
Discipline	Folklore
Language	Eng
Spatial Coverage	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Placentia Bay--Southern Harbour
Notes	Bibliography: leaves 248-259. -- Includes index.
Abstract	This is a study of the performance of games and play among the children of a Newfoundland outport. Based on fieldwork with children aged between seven and thirteen years, the thesis explores children's games through a performance-centred approach to folklore. Other previous performance oriented studies have been taken into account in the analysis, and a performance-centred approach for the study of children's play and game activities is suggested. -- A detailed discussion of the fleldwork experiences and methods used while dealing with the raw materials in the context of the community of Southern Harbour is given in Chapter Two. Chapter Three describes the play and game activities that were collected during fieldwork; it also suggests a classification system derived from the features of the play and game activities of the children. Chapter Four presents a performance model and deals with the relationship of performer and audience in the context of children's play activities. -- Since children are less accessible to adults for a performance centred approach, this thesis tends to fill a niche in present possibilities for future research on the performance elements of children's play and game activities in folklore.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	76204426
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(29.12 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Hohmann_DelfMarie.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	215852.cpd