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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.

Contents of the CD

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

see section Publications.

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

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