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Inuit play tough: Grow up fast, or face the consequences.
Inuit Morality Play
The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old
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304 pages
- Release Date
10 September 1999
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Summary
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 ans…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300080643 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300080646 |
| Author: | Jean L. Briggs |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 1999 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 153mm x 229mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
153 × 229 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Jean L. Briggs
Briggs is Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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