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Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old
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by Jean L. Briggs


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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 meaning 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.

Co-published with Yale University Press.

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  • Title Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old
  • Author Jean L. Briggs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher ISER Books
  • ISBN 9780919666962 / 0919666965
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.950
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Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old
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Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old

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St. John's, NL: ISER Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; a few light pokes to front; light wear to upper inside corner; otherwise very minimal wear; spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; In this riveting book, psychological anthropologist Jean L. Briggs examines dramatic interactions between Chubby Maata, a 3-year-old Inuit girl, and the adults in her world. In these playful yet emotionally charged dramas, Inuit adults enact with their children the plots that drive Inuit social life; they test, act out problems, entertain themselves, and create children who think and feel like Inuit.
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