| Description |
xxi, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Explorations in anthropology |
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Explorations in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Foreword / H. B. Schwartzman -- 1. Naming and Gaming -- 2. Pretend Play -- 3. Changing Roles -- 4. The Ogre: A Melanesian Cyclop -- 5. The Trickster: A Melanesian Enantiomorph |
| Summary |
This book takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth ethnographies of children's play. In examining the subject from a cross-cultural perspective, the author argues that our understanding of the way children transform their environment to create make-believe is enhanced by viewing their creations as oral poetry. The result is a detailed 'thick description' of how pretence is socially mediated and linguistically constructed, how children make sense of their own play, how play relates to other imaginative genres in Huli life, and the relationship between play and cosmology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-294) and index |
| Audience |
General |
| Subject |
Child development.
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Child psychology.
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Imagination in children.
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Play assessment (Child psychology)
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Imitation in children.
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Symbolic play.
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| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| LC no. |
98219514 |
| ISBN |
185973913X |
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1859739180 |
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