Sutton-Smith’s Five Easy Pieces
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Brian Sutton-Smith was a sprite. I searched my vocabulary far and wide and settled on this word, this reference to lively, mythological creatures among the fairies and elves. I never met anyone like him. There is a long line of anthropologists and folklorists who have studied children’s games and folklore, stretching back into the nineteenth century (Bronner 1988; Bronner 2011:196–247; McNeil 1988). Brian belongs in that scholarly history, of course, but he was also the sort of charismatic leader a scholarly field, especially an interdisciplinary one, needs to thrive. Brian was a founding father of the children’s folklore section of the American Folklore Society (Sutton-Smith 2008:96) in 1978, and by the time I joined The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play (then TAASP, now just TASP, dropping the narrower disciplinary designation) in 1978, I could see in both organizations how his energy and personality and intelligence was at the center of both groups. He was the force behind the children’s folklore section’s collaborating on a first-ever “sourcebook” for the study of children’s folklore (Sutton Smith, Mechling, Johnson, and McMahon 1995).
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