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NORTH AFRICAN AND SAHARAN TOY AND PLAY CULTURES
an approach based on the Unit of Analysis
Jean-Pierre Rossie
PowerPoint Presentation for the SCCR Symposium
Unit of Analysis in Contemporary Social Cultural Research:
A Global Perspective
chair: Wally Karnilowicz - Victoria University, Australia
Society for Cross-Cultural Research
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USAFebruary 19, 2010
research resources:
fieldwork in the Tunisian Sahara and in Morocco
collection of North African and Saharan toys of the Musée de l’Homme, Paris
bibliography of the concerned regions
Moroccan dolls are short-living cultural objects
eighteen-months-old girl with one of her first dolls
made with apiece of cactus
girls often create dolls for theirmarriage feast games, household games and
games staging female activities
children’s dolls as carriers of adult world’s significations
the groom carries a dagger and
a bag with herbsas magical protection
the bride
has herface covered
against theevil eye
dolls for rituals and dolls for playing rituals
belghenja dollmade by
women to be walked in
processionduring the
ritual forobtaining rain
and
belghenja dolls as toys
changing values and attitudes in civil society
as represented in play and toys
pretend play in relation to ahome for unmarried pregnant women
and handicapped children
influence of the toy industry
why make it yourself if you can buy it really cheap
made in China but bought in South Morocco in 2005
books on Saharan and North African Toy and Play Culturesfor information and documents/photos see www.sanatoyplay.org