Child's play. Myth, nimesis and make-believe
Editorial BERG PUBLISHERS
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- Publisher BERG PUBLISHERS
- ISBN13 9781859739181
- ISBN10 1859739180
- Type Book
- Pages 301
- Published 1997
- Bookbinding Rustic
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Anthropology. General ThemesChild's play. Myth, nimesis and make-believe
Editorial BERG PUBLISHERS
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Book Details
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.