Imagining Identities
Mimetic Constructions in Huli Child Fantasy Play
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2579169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence Goldman, Calvin Smith, Calvin D Smith (0000-0002-3544-8337) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3034500 |
| OpenAlex | W2321710273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of object and role transformations in the social pretend play of Huli (Papua New Guinea) children. It focuses on how these child actors enact their understandings of the relation between language, gender and identity, and the conversational means by which they monitor authenticity in role reproduction, assignation and appropriation. From an examination of the levels of discontinuity in findings for Western and non-Western children, make-believe play emerges as an important window into child perspectives on the nature and meaning of roles in a post-colonial context. The first person he met was Rabbit. 'Hallo Rabbit,' said Pooh, 'is that you?' 'Let's pretend it isn't,' said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.' 'I've got a message for you.' 'I'll give it to him.' (A.A. Milne 1926
Aesthetics · Art · Fantasy · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
Talk never dies
The Wake of Imagination
The Concept of Mind
The use of the past tense in games of pretend
Development of Intersubjectivity in Social Pretend Play
The Fictional Mind
Anthropology and child development
Text and context in imaginative play and the social sciences
Children's play
Script recognition, articulation and expansion in children's role play∗
The Oasis of Happiness
Pooh talk
Homo ludens
Mimesis as Make-Beleive
What's that you said Sooty? Puppets, parlance and pretence
Doctrine of the Similar (1933)
The Sooty Show Laid Bear
Make-Believe Play among Huli Children
The Anthropological Study of Children's Play
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2011 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |