Box 361
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Ready, set splash : pool games of days gone past / Megan Nelson, 2009
Item — Box: 361, Folder: 11
Identifier: FA 1 Item 4468
Scope and Contents note
This project is a collection of pool games that were played by the informants when they were children. The analysis discusses the central focus that a swimming pool often is in the summer lives of children. Also talks about the role of imagination and creativity in children's lives. Claims that while some objects, like spoons, could serve creative purposes in pool games, formal pool toys limited creativity and were rarely used in creative play. Also claims that gender and competition were...
Dates:
Other: 2009