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Inuit Morality Play - The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old (Paperback, New Ed)
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Inuit Morality Play - The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old (Paperback, New Ed)
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Psychological anthropologist Jean Briggs shows how Inuit adults use
dramatic play to transmit cultural messages and moral lessons to
their children "I could not be more enthusiastic about this
brilliant book. . . . A mesmerizing ethnography."-Nancy J. Chodorow
"Is your mother good?" "Are you good?" "Do you want to come live
with me?" Inuit adults often playfully present small children with
difficult, even dangerous, choices and then dramatize the
consequences of the child's answers. They are enacting in
larger-than-life form the plots that drive Inuit social
life-testing, acting out problems, entertaining themselves, and,
most of all, bringing up their children. In a riveting narrative,
psychological anthropologist Jean L. Briggs takes us through six
months of dramatic interactions in the life of Chubby Maata, a
three-year-old girl growing up in a Baffin Island hunting camp. The
book examines the issues that engaged the child-belonging,
possession, love-and shows the process of her growing. Briggs
questions the nature of "sharedness" in culture and assumptions
about how culture is transmitted. She suggests that both cultural
meanings and strong personal commitment to one's world can be (and
perhaps must be) acquired not by straightforwardly learning
attitudes, rules, and habits in a dependent mode but by
experiencing oneself as an agent engaged in productive conflict in
emotionally problematic situations. Briggs finds that dramatic play
is an essential force in Inuit social life. It creates and supports
values; engenders and manages attachments and conflicts; and
teaches and maintains an alert, experimental, constantly testing
approach to social relationships.
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