Jean L Briggs: Inuit Morality Play

Cover: 9780300080643 | Inuit Morality Play | The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old

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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.

Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780300080643
ISBN-10:	0300080646
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Briggs, Jean L
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	Yale University Press
Maße:	236 x 153 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Jean L Briggs
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.09.1999
Gewicht:	0,408 kg

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