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The Historical and Psychological Significance of the Unorganized Games of New Zealand Primary School Children

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dc.contributor.author Sutton-Smith, B
dc.date.accessioned 2008-08-20T03:38:54Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-02T00:17:45Z
dc.date.available 2008-08-20T03:38:54Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-02T00:17:45Z
dc.date.copyright 1953
dc.date.issued 1953
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/28270
dc.description.abstract In the Spring of 1948 while teaching at a primary school, I observed a small group of girls playing a game called "Tip the Finger". During the game one of the players chanted the following rhyme: "Draw a snake upon your back And this is the way it went North, South, East, West, Who tipped your finger?" I recognized immediately and with some surprise that this rhyme contained elements which were not invented by the children and were probably of some antiquity. I knew, for example, though only in a vague and unlearned manner, that the four pattern of the North, South, East and West and the Snake symbolism were recurrent motifs in mythology and folklore. I was aware also that there did not exits any specialized attempt to explain the part that games of this nature played in the lives of the players. en_NZ
dc.language en_NZ
dc.language.iso en_NZ
dc.publisher Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
dc.title The Historical and Psychological Significance of the Unorganized Games of New Zealand Primary School Children en_NZ
dc.type Text en_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuw Awarded Doctoral Thesis en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
thesis.degree.level Doctoral en_NZ
thesis.degree.name Doctor of Philosophy en_NZ


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