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DESERT CHILDREN Toys & Play in the Tunisian Sahara & the Moroccan Mountains

DESERT CHILDREN Toys & Play in the Tunisian Sahara & the Moroccan Mountains. Jean-Pierre Rossie Sociocultural anthropologist, Toy Museum, Sidi Ifni. © 2006 J-P. Rossie. In the Tunisian Sahara 1975. From studying socialisation to studying play and toys. Saharan and North African

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DESERT CHILDREN Toys & Play in the Tunisian Sahara & the Moroccan Mountains

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  1. DESERT CHILDRENToys & Play in the Tunisian Sahara & the Moroccan Mountains

  2. Jean-Pierre RossieSociocultural anthropologist, Toy Museum, Sidi Ifni © 2006J-P. Rossie

  3. In the Tunisian Sahara 1975

  4. From studying socialisation to studying play and toys

  5. Saharan and North African play activities and toys • Regions and populations • Sources of information • Continuity and change • Research results Sand Desert

  6. Stone Desert

  7. Rural Worlds

  8. Urban Worlds

  9. Sources of InformationFieldwork in the Tunisian Sahara (1975-1977) and in Morocco (1992- )An important collection oftoys from North Africa and the Sahara at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris (transfered to the new Musée du Quai Branly)The bibliography refering to the concerned regions

  10. Continuity

  11. Change

  12. Research resultsToy collection donated to the French Toy Museum for the project Jouets du MondeWorld ToysPublications

  13. Jean-Pierre Rossie (2005) Toys, play, culture and society An anthropological approach with reference to North Africa and the Sahara 256 p., 144 ill. with included CD Information on: www.sanatoyplay.org

  14. On the CD included in this book one finds The 144 original color or black and white photos The volumes of the collection Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures • Children’s dolls and doll play, 2005, 328 p., 163 ill. • The animal world in play, games and toys, 2005, 229 p., 107 ill. • Commented bibliography on play, games and toys, 2005, 61 p.  Next year a new volume will be published • Domestic life in play, games and toys, 240 ill. Two more volumes are planned • Technical activities in play, games and toys • Games of skill and chance

  15. Three topics of toys and play activities are discussed • Children’s creativity with natural and waste material • Adult-child and child-child relations in toys and play • Rituals and feasts in play activities and toys

  16. When playing and creating toys children use a lot of natural material of mineral origin

  17. of vegetal origin

  18. of animal origin

  19. Children use also much waste material

  20. They use all resources available

  21. And show a surprising inventiveness

  22. Second-hand toys adapted to local manners

  23. Technical discoveriesmodeling

  24. Constructing vehicles

  25. Simple wheels Complex wheels

  26. Making one’s own skateboard

  27. Globalisation of the toy market

  28. Children’s know-how

  29. Dolls with a face Dolls without a face

  30. Modernised doll

  31. Girl’s doll

  32. Dolls for tourists

  33. Adult-child relations Mother and child

  34. Mother doll and her baby

  35. Father and child

  36. Big brother and little brother

  37. The Sidi Ifni toy creator

  38. Big girls or little mothers

  39. Playgroupsand the role of peers

  40. Playing nomads’ life

  41. Playing farmers’ life

  42. Interpretation of women’s worlds

  43. Girls’ dreamsMatrimonial realities

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