NORTH AFRICAN AND SAHARAN TOY AND PLAY CULTURES

NORTH AFRICAN AND SAHARAN TOY AND PLAY CULTURES from research to applications Jean-Pierre Rossie

Power. Point Presentation for the AAACIG Symposium Issues in Parent-Child, Institutionalized and Free Play Settings chair: David F. Lancy - Utah State University, USA American Anthropological Association Children and Childhood Interest Group Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA February 18, 2010

research in the Tunisian Sahara 1975/1977

sand desert and stone desert

research in Morocco 1992 - today rural worlds

urban worlds

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

Unesco publication 1984

Survey of some Saharan and North African Games followed by a discussion of The role of anthropological research on play: Play as a source of insight into the child and the society Play, education and child welfare publication available on www. sanatoyplay. org see Documentation Center: publications, books, 1984

from research to applications intercultural project in the pre-school

nomadic life

dromedaries walking around the oasis village

children’s workshops based on Moroccan children’s toy and play culture Nafplion, Greece, 2008

the children’s spirits of Nafplion defending their right to play

creativity workshops with natural and waste material Florence: city library Biblioteca delle Oblate, June 2009

making masks

making dolls

Florence: future of the city & city of the future October 2009

Ashura a children’s feast in Morocco Power. Point presentation and texts prepared for a project in Global Education of the Humanities Education Centre, London available on www. sanatoyplay. org see Documentation Center: publications 2008

cultural week on Moroccan toys and play in a youth house in Safi, a Moroccan coastal town

Safi children discovering self-made toys

Safi adults remembering old times

stimulating parents to play with their handicapped children by using local toys and games

seminar on Moroccan self-made toys for the members of a Safi youth group

some of the toys donated to the Musée du Jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne in 2005 for the project Toys of the World

toys made by children of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas donated to the Centro per la Cultura Ludica of Turin exposition Children’s Dreams (September 2010)

globalization of toy and play cultures why make it yourself if you can buy it really cheap made in China but bought in South Morocco in 2005

play culture of the children

play culture for the children

books on Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures for information and documents/photos see www. sanatoyplay. org

Photography Khalija Jariaa made the photos of slides 24 and 31 Roos van Wassenhove made the photo of slide 29 A collaborator of the Museum of Childhood ‘Stathmos’ made the photo of slide 15 Jean-Pierre Rossie made the photos of the other slides