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JANUARY 2007
This month's highlights from the Burroughs Family of Websites

.The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

PART I

January 2007
Highlights from this month's
Danton's Tarzana Treasure Vaults

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1761 JCB/Danton Burroughs Tarzana Vaults and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. presents Tarzan Sunday Page Art 1968 by Russ Manning Tarzan and the Return of Dagga Ramba June 23, 1968 - Dec. 1, 1968 ~ Strips: 1946-1969 Complete  http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1761.html March and April 1931 http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1758.html

The Complete Story

PART II: ERBzine Highlights
January 5 - 11, 2007

OUR MAMMOTH
NEW YEAR ISSUE
The Ape-Man his Kith and Kin
A collection of texts which prepared the advent of
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Collated by Georges Dodds Ph.D. ~ McGill University ~ Canada

ERBzine kicks off the New Year with our biggest issue yet!
100 Web Pages
Many thousands of print-out pages
Over 70 Rare Texts in Downloadable Format
Hundreds of 19th Century Line-Art Illustrations
Documentation Notes
Comparison Chart
Reference Links
Countless Hours in Preparation
Come back often . . . many more editions in works . . . and ongoing text revisions.
ERBzine Intro
The Georges Dodds Cover Page
Main Index Chart

"Feral children, also known as wild children or wolf children, are children who've grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all. They may have been raised by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own. In some cases, children are confined and denied normal social interaction with other people." ~ Feral Children Site

Occasionally throughout our history, civilized society has come across a "wild child" who has grown up in  isolation with virtually no human contact. Many researchers believe that we're born with the principles of language, but if a first language isn't acquired by puberty it may be too late -- we just don't have the neurological development. It also appears that there's a particular period in the life of humans when they're ripe for learning languages. Studies of feral children who have had little contact with humans during the critical ages of one through four years show that they've had tremendous difficulty mastering language and reintegrating with humans.

Languages are complex and dynamic -- constantly evolving according to the needs of societies. To some degree humans appear to have the innate ability to form languages and many feral children learn to mimic animal sounds: barking, growling, whining, howling, bird sounds, etc., But research suggests that it takes the interaction with other humans to develop a form of communication with any degree of complexity. We are the result of complex interactions between the environment and our genes.

Many of the "wild children" raised in isolation are found to be quite uncivilized and barely able to walk or talk. They are unable to empathize with of the needs and desires of other humans -- they don't even identify themselves as human. The concepts of morals, property and possessions are alien to them. Many of them prove to be surly, uncooperative and self-centred individuals -- a far cry from the Noble Savage notion put forth by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

A study of feral children suggests that our upbringing is entirely responsible for endowing us with language, the ability to think and other traits. What happens in early childhood thus has a profound impact on the neurological development of the brain:

"Studies of childhood abuse and neglect have important lessons for considerations of nature and nurture. While each child has unique genetic potentials, both human and animal studies point to important needs that every child has, and severe long-term consequences for brain function if those needs are not met. The effects of the childhood environment, favorable or unfavorable, interact with all the processes of neurodevelopment."
~ Dr Bruce D Perry, Childhood Experience and the Expression of Genetic Potential

"The importance of early intervention and attention to the chronicity of environmental adversity may indicate the need for permanent alternative caregivers, in order to preserve the development of the most vulnerable children. . . . Child abuse and neglect are (wo)man-made phenomena which adversely affect a child's development and sometimes survival, and which should, at least in theory, be preventable."
~ Danya Glaser, Child Abuse and Neglect and the Brain

Obviously research studies in this field are of major importance to educators to whom a knowledge of language, moral, and overall neurological development of students of all ages is of vital concern when designing educational programs and instructional techniques. The Internet is an ideal forum for the collation of related articles and research on this subject. Until now there has never been an attempt made to scan the rare early writings on the subject of feral children, so as to present them to researchers at one location for open access study.

The most famous feral child in fiction is probably Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. The character was introduced in Burroughs' 1912 novel, Tarzan of the Apes, and soon became a cultural icon. John "Tarzan" Clayton, the young orphan of Lord and Lady Greystoke, was raised by an advanced "missing link" tribe of anthropoids in the African jungles. He learned their rudimentary language as a young child and later taught himself to read from his dead parents' collection of primers and other children picture books -- an interesting case study. Using this fictional character as a rallying point I have worked with Dr. Georges Dodds of McGill University to present and document almost 100 feral-related works that inspired this literary phenomenon. We believe that the discovery and perusal of these many thousands of pages and illustrations will serve as an impetus for further research in the field.

Sample Art From
Heroes of the Dark Continent by J. W. Buel
Found at ERBzine 1813 and ERBzine 1813a


January 12 - 18, 2007

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 0816 The Harold Foster Tribute Series continues . . .  www.erbzine.com/mag8/0802.html HAROLD FOSTER'S  SUNDAY TARZAN STRIP September 9 - December 2, 1934 TARZAN AND THE MYSTERIOUS MAIDEN II http://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0816.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1761 Danton Burroughs/Tarzana Archive:  Russ Manning Tarzan Sunday Pages Tarzan and the Return of Dagga Ramba June 23, 1968 - Dec. 1, 1968 ~ Strips: 1946-1969 This week: October  http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1761.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1713 A Maiden On Barsoom A 38,000-word Mars novel  by  Rick Johnson  http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1713.html

FEATURE 4: Update ERBzine 1801 Georges Dodds' The Ape-Man: His Kith and Kin A collection of 100 texts which prepared the advent of  Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs More rare texts and reviews have been added  http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/1801.html

FEATURE 5: Archive ERBzine 0508 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE WAR YEARS ERB and the USS SHAW  http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0508.html

FEATURE 6: Archive ERBzine 0949 Michigan Military Academy Years Gridiron Memories  http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0949.html

January 19 - 25, 2007

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1899 Tarzan and his Fellows: “Fact, Fiction, Legend?” by Dr. Douglas K. Candland - Bucknell University Part of the "Ape-Man, his Kith and Kin" series    http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/1899.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1761 JCB/Danton Burroughs/ERB, Inc. Tarzana Vaults presents the conclusion of Tarzan and the Return of Dagga Ramba by Russ Manning June 23, 1968 - Dec. 1, 1968 ~ Strips: 1946-1969   http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1761.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1876 Pt. I: Gallery of Interior Line Art from J.W. Buel's Heroes of the Dark Continent Part of the "Ape-Man, his Kith and Kin" series  http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/1876.html

FEATURE 4: ERBzine 1745 Secret Masters of Callisto A full-length novel ~ The first of eleven chapters By Charles R. Rutledge http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1745.html

FEATURE 5: Archive ERBzine  Burroughs' Sailor Among Apes plus Sources for and Imitators of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Classic by Georges T. Dodds  http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1474.html

FEATURE 6: Archive ERBzine 1482 The Victory Cry of Tarzan of the Apes The Evolution of the Tarzan "Yell"  http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1482.html

January 26 - February 1, 2007

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1801 6 More Rare Finds in the Dodds' Ape-Man, his Kith and Kin series 1890 Speyer: Bobbi the Chimp 1891 Robida: Monkey King 1892 Hofland: Young Crusoe 1893 Wildman Baboo's Good Tiger 1894 Stephens: Indian Devil 1895 Stockwell: Wolf-Children  http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/1801.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1758 JCB/Danton Burroughs/ERB, Inc. Tarzana Vaults presents  This Week: The Month of March 1931  http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1758.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1877 Pt. II: Gallery of Interior Line Art from J.W. Buel's Heroes of the Dark Continent Part of the "Ape-Man, his Kith and Kin" series  http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/1877.html

FEATURE 4: ERBzine 1745a Secret Masters of Callisto A full-length novel ~ Chapters 2 & 3 By Charles R. Rutledge http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1745a.html

FEATURE 5: Update ERBzine 0590 The Adventures of Tarzan A 1921 Serial Starring Elmo Lincoln A new fan review by Steve "Korak" Allsup http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0590.html

FEATURE 6: ERBzine Burroughs Bibliophile Tribute Pages George McWhorter has delivered the latest edition of the Burroughs Bulletin to the printers BB#69 Wizard of Venus Edition  will soon be in the hands of all Burroughs Bibliophile members. The contents of this issue is previewed at ERBzine  and will soon be added to the BB Index at the Burroughs Bibliophiles Website. http://www.erbzine.com/bb

FEATURE 7: Update ERBzine  David Burton's Artist Journal Volume IV A newspaper review of the Leanta Books edition of  ERB's A Princess of Mars featuring Burton Art  http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1715.html

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