{"product_id":"inuit-morality-play-jean-l-briggs-9780919666962","title":"Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCo-published with Yale University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean L. Briggs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0919666965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780919666962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ISER Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.87d","brand":"Jean L. Briggs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44410973225215,"sku":"9780919666962","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07a42089-57ec-4f2b-9fa8-20beb866f8a8.jpg?v=1697538458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inuit-morality-play-jean-l-briggs-9780919666962","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}