” (autistics) in an open environment as part of his practice, which challenged the continued clinical tendencies of isolating these populations within asylums. Instead, he advocated a form of “free play” that allowed his patients to explore their environment
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Reinventing Play
Autistic Children and the Normativity of Play in Postwar France
Jonathyne Briggs
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 47–64 (18 total)
Against the Run of Play
Masculine Fantasies and the Game of Football in the Gran Chaco
Agustin Diz
found that football was a central activity for the young men who lived in the indigenous communities that dot the border between Argentina and Bolivia. As in most Guaraní settlements in the region, young men played football every day of the week. They
An Afternoon of Productive Play with Problematic Dolls
The Importance of Foregrounding Children's Voices in Research
Rebecca C. Hains
Bratz dolls, popular among pre-adolescent girls, have been the subject of widespread criticism. Many scholars, activists, educators, and parents have argued that the scantily clad fashion dolls contribute to the sexualization of girls that has been decried by the American Psychological Association, among others. As is often the case in studies of girls' popular culture, however, these conversations about the problems with Bratz have rarely incorporated the voices of girls in the brand's target audience. To address this gap, this article analyzes an afternoon of Bratz doll play by a small group of African-American girls, aged between 8 and 10 years. This article suggests that although critical concerns about Bratz' sexualization are warranted, the dolls' racial diversity may benefit some girls' play, enabling them to productively negotiate complex issues of racial identity, racism, and history while paying little attention to the dolls' sexualized traits.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 121–140 (20 total)
Crafting Future Selves
Time-Tricking and the Limits of Temporal Play in Children’s Online Film-Making
Espen Helgesen
her friends. Like her, they found the internet provided them with seemingly endless opportunities for exploration and experimentation. Using avatars, or digital on-screen extensions of herself, Amina spent time online almost every afternoon, playing
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–99 (13 total)
Thither and Back Again
An Exploration of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sue Emmy Jennings
Interactive play and child development Neuro-Dramatic Play (NDP) is the developmental paradigm that I have created for therapy, education and parenting, which includes sensory play, messy play, rhythmic play and dramatic play. 1 There is a
Playing the edge ball
The politics of transgression in land development in southern China
Lan Wei and Minh T.N. Nguyen
the notion of “rightful resistance”—namely, the act of defying state power on its very terms ( O'Brien and Li 2006 ). In this article, we shall use the Chinese notion of cabianqiu , namely “playing the edge ball,” to underscore a different, yet
Taking on the Light
Ontological Black Girlhood in the Twenty-first Century
Renee Nishawn Scott
investigated about how and why Black girls’ expression and play drive popular US cultural production. Because Black people are more than the sum of their pain and production, conversations about this phenomenon must extend beyond appropriation to pinpoint
God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe, or Does He?
Anthropological Interlocutions of Sport and Religion
Thomas F. Carter
Religion has been a central object of anthropological inquiry since its earliest days. In contrast, sport has remained an ancillary object of interest at best. Nonetheless, anthropologists have written some provocative analyses that challenge other disciplinary approaches to sport. Principally, those analyses emerged out of anthropological approaches to religion. Concerned with the ways in which anthropology theorizes and analyzes both religion and sport, this article begins by assessing the modern-day myth that 'sport is a religion'. It then compares subject-specific approaches to the relationships between sport and religion. The article then moves to the anthropological focus on ritual as it developed in the study of religion and how those ideas were then applied to analyses of sport. The article concludes with an examination of how the anthropology of sport has moved beyond those initial efforts before discussing various anthropological approaches to sport and religion.
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 142–162 (21 total)
Kamikaze Truckers in Postwar Japan
Joshua Hotaka Roth
newspaper accounts and industry reports, but some of these sources offer key elements of the social and economic circumstances of the times, and, supplemented with popular cultural representations and theoretical perspectives on play and games, they allow us
In Search of a Lost Childhood
Holocaust, Play and Filiation in Sigalit Landau's Works
Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg
) ( Figure 1 ), I will show that the work is based on an intricate memory, involving a multigenerational tale and a desire for communication and transmission. Furthermore, I will demonstrate that the sculpture also contains elements of play, a feature which
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 134–153 (20 total)