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child fantasy play
child psychology
cross-cultural developmental psychology
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Fantasy Frame
Fantasy Negotiations
Fantasy Play
Genre Mode
Highest Percentage Occurrence
Huli Term
IBU
imaginative role enactment
Knowledge Acquisition
Melanesian childhood studies
Mouth Harp
Nursery Lore
oral narrative analysis
Pandanus Tree
phenomenology in anthropology
Pretence Play
Pretend Play
Rain Drops
Referent Model
Relative Incidences
Show Incidence Rates
Social Pretence
Social Pretend Play
Socio-dramatic Play
Spatial Temporal Boundaries
Trickster Mythology
Uninvited Guest
virtual reality in children's play
Waters Fall
Western intellectual traditions
Product details
- ISBN 9781859739136
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This innovative book finally 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 richly 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. Informed by theoretical approaches in the anthropology of play, developmental and child psychology, philosophy and phenomenology and drawing on ethnographic data from Melanesia, the book analyzes the sources for imitation, the kinds of identities and roles emulated, and the structure of collaborative make-believe talk to reveal the complex way in which children invoke their experiences of the world and re-invent them as types of virtual reality. Particular importance is placed on how the figures of the ogre and trickster are articulated. The author demonstrates that while the concept of ‘imagination' has been the cornerstone of Western intellectual traditions from Plato to Postmodernism, models of child fantasy play have always intruded into such theorizing because of children's unique capacity to throw into relief our understanding of the relationship between representation and reality.
Laurence R. Goldman University of Queensland
