Transformations The Anthropology of Children’s Play
Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and v...
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New York, NY
Springer US
1978, 1978
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1978 |
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Table of Contents:
- One Anthropological Play
- Play, Culture, and Anthropology
- Play: Definitions, Classifications, and Reductions
- Playing Anthropologist
- Two The Invention of Childhood
- Conceiving Childhood: The First Invention
- Reinventions of Childhood
- The American Cultivation of Childhood: 1830—1945
- The Culture of Childhood and Anthropologists’ Metaphors for Children
- The Great Pretenders
- Three Describing Play: Ethnographic Reports
- Asia
- Oceania
- Central and South America
- North America
- Africa
- Near East
- Europe
- Summary
- Four Staging Play: Evolutionary and Developmental Studies
- Stages and Survivals
- Recapitulation: G. Stanley Hall
- On Morals and Marbles: Jean Piaget
- The Ontogeny of Play
- Staging Play: Comment and Critique
- Summary
- Five Preserving Play: Diffusionism and Particularism
- Game Diffusion and the Patolli—Pachisi Debate
- Particularism: The Facts of Play
- William Wells Newell: American Children’s Games and Songs
- Early Collections and Classifications
- Walter Roth: Australian Aborigine Games
- Elsdon Best: Maori Children’s Games
- Paul G. Brewster: Game Collections and Classifications
- Brian Sutton-Smith: New Zealand and American Children’s Games
- Dorothy Howard: Australian Children’s Games
- Iona and Peter Opie: English Children’s Games and Rhymes
- Favorite Collectors’ Items
- Summary
- Six Socializing Play: Functional Analysis
- A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski
- Functionalists and Play
- Socializing Play: The Kibbutz
- Socializing Play: The Australian Aborigine
- Socializing Play: The Kpelle
- Play and Sex Roles
- Games and Power Roles
- Imitation, Imagination, and Culture
- Play: Socialization, Satirization, or Innovation?
- Summary
- Seven Projecting Play: Culture and Personality
- Configurationists
- Psychocultural Analysis
- Freud on Play
- Projecting Play: The Pilagá
- Projecting Play: The Duau
- Play and Exploration
- Behavioral Definitions: Experimental Studies
- Play and Creativity
- Summary
- Eleven Conclusion: New Metaphors for Old
- Twelve Selected References and Films
- Films on Children’s Play
- Other Films of Interest to Play Researchers
- References
- New Methodologies: The Hopi and the Balinese
- African Children’s Play: The Luba, Sanga, and Yeke
- Freudians on Play
- Statistics and Culture: Freud and Learning Theory
- Projecting Play in Six Cultures
- Games and Culture
- Summary
- Eight Saying Play: Communication Studies
- The Difference That Makes a Difference: Gregory Bateson
- Play and Paradox: The Message "This Is Play"
- The Single Signal
- Winking or Blinking? Text and Context
- Saying Play: The Mescalero Apache Child
- Saying Play: The American Preschool Child
- Summary
- Nine Minding Play: Structural and Cognitive Studies
- The Player’s Perspective
- The Researcher’s Perspective
- Minding Play: Piaget versus Sutton-Smith
- Piaget’s Assimilation of Play
- Play and Learning
- Rhymes and Reasons: Children’s Verbal Play
- Summary
- Ten Defining Play: Ecology, Ethology, and Experiments
- Environmental Definitions: Toys and Niches
- Behavioral Definitions: Child Ethology