...about is the theme of lona and Peter Opie in their Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (pp. 1-2) : While a nursery rhyme passes from a mother or other...accorded it here. As Douglas Newton has pointed out: The word-wide fraternity of children is the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no...

...and anthropologist can, without travelling a mile from his door, examine a thriving unself conscious culture (the word 'culture' is used here deliberately)...accorded it here. As Douglas Newton has pointed out: The word-wide fraternity of children is the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no...

...and anthropologist can, without travelling a mile from his door, examine a thriving unself conscious culture (the word culture is used here deliberately)...helpless existence in the hinterland of a native reserve (ibid: 22). Children, they say, are 'tradition's warmest friend': Like the savage they are respecters,...

...28). In this sense the culture of childhood is timeless. It is 'primitive' if not 'primaeval' in form: The folklorist and anthropologist can, without travelling...world and quite as little affected by it, as is the 242 culture of some dwindling aboriginal tribe living out its helpless existence in the hinterland...

...examine a thriving unselfconscious culture (the word "culture" is used here deliberately) which is unnoticed by the sophisticated world, and quite as little affected by it as the culture of some dwindling aboriginal tribe living out its helpless existence in the hinterland...

...in a dramatic and more populist form in the ethnographic work of the Opies, as chapter 5 explored: the folklorist and anthropologist can, without travelling...sophisticated world, and quite as little affected by it, as the culture of some dwindling aboriginal tribe living out its helpless existence in the hinterland...