News
Toys created
by Children - a Facebook group launched in April 2009
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63858074562&ref=mf
Celebrating children’s creativity in their self made toys
from a multicultural perspective
Series of PowerPoint presentations on Toys created by Moroccan Children
• Toys and the animal world, 28 slides
• Dolls, 50 slides
• Toys for games of skill, 31 slides
• Musical toys, 31 slides
Report on the workshop on play and making toys in Morocco, Nafplion, Greece, July 2008
Rossie, Jean-Pierre (2008). Moroccan children’s toys seen through
the eyes of Greek children. Report on the workshop on play and making
toys among the Anti-Atlas Mountain children in Southern Morocco at the
Museum of Childhood “Stathmos”, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation,
National Railway Station Park, Nafplion, Greece, 5-8 July 2008, 8, 11
ill.
Available on
this website.
New book on CD
Rossie, Jean-Pierre (2008). Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures. Domestic life in play, games and toys, 436 p., 410 ill.
Price 15 Euros, air postage included
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New document in March 2009
The following publication is now found
on this website: Rossie, Jean-Pierre (1984). Games and Toys:
Anthropological Research on Their Practical Contribution to Child Development.
Aids to Programming Unicef Assistance to Education. Notes.
Comments... Child, Family, Community, N.S. 147, Paris: Unit for Co-operation
with UNICEF & W.F.P., UNESCO, 71 p., 64 ill. (with new photographs).
Available on
this website (downloading this document may take some
time).
New document in January 2009
Since the beginning of 2009 the following publication
is regularly updated and published on this website. Rossie, Jean-Pierre
(2005). Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures. Commented
bibliography on play, games and toys.
Available on this website.
New documents in December 2008
PowerPoint Presentations
Globalisation and tradition in Moroccan Anti-Atlas children’s toys and play, 45 slides
Les festivités d’Achoura dans l’Anti-Atlas : entre rites agraires séculaires et divertissement folklorique d’aujourd’hui, 65 slides - for the comments on the slides see document 2008 in the section Publications.
Achoura : une fête des enfants au Maroc, 22 slides
Achoura : la mascarade de Tiznit, 45 slides
Poupées d’enfants dans l’Anti-Atlas, 35 slides
Articles and papers
In December 2008 almost all my articles and papers have been made available on this website
4-6 July 2008 - Seminars at the Centro per la Cultura Ludica, Torino
A document in French is available on this website together with 12 series of slides in PowerPoint
Rossie, Jean-Pierre (2008). Rêves d’Enfants
: jeux et jouets de l’Anti-Atlas et du Sahara. Document de travail
pour les séminaires au Centro per la Cultura Ludica, Torino, 4-6
juin 2008. Centro Internazionale Ludoteche, Firenze, 31 p.
Available
on this website.
For the series of slides in PowerPoint see the section Multimedia of this website
Book : Toys, Play, Culture and Society
Rossie, Jean-Pierre (2005). Toys, Play, Culture and Society. An Anthropological Approach with Reference to North Africa and the Sahara. Foreword by Brian Sutton-Smith, 256 p., 144 ill., included CD.
47 Euros, air postage included
37 Euros for students and developing countries, air postage included
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Exposition Deserts. Children from the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains
this exposition is continued in 2009
