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The Remains of the Game
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Voices
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October 1, 2007
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- Thorn, John
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Copyright informationCopyright New York Folklore Society Fall 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Conventionally understood as historical linguistics, philology is close kin with folklore. Practitioners of both will rake the embers of bygone days looking for traces of what fired the customs of present times, but where students of language are content to identify the remains, folklorists tend to fan the embers, hoping to revive just a bit of the old flame.
A July 1 article in the New York Times, "Anyone Up for Stickball? In a PlayStation World, Maybe Not," by Timothy Williams and Cassie Feldman, detailed the improbable survival in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn of such presumably vanished games as stickball, skelly, ringolevio, and curb ball. In my experience, coming upon a game of ...
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October 5, 2008 ;
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721 words
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383 words
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548 words
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Getty Images;
October 6, 2008 ;
EMMANUEL DUNAND;
89 words
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CINEMATIC CASANOVAS: It's always the ones you least expect; THE MAN FROM...
Santa Fe Reporter;
November 26, 2002 ;
Anonymous;
539 words
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October 8, 2008 ;
450 words
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