Play and games in Southern Harbour : a performance oriented study of children's activities in a Newfoundland outport community

• Main Author: Hohmann, Delf Maria
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1993
• Subjects: Southern Harbour; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/5505/; https://research.library.mun.ca/5505/1/Hohmann_DelfMarie.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/5505/3/Hohmann_DelfMarie.pdf

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.