A Comparative Study of the Play Activities of Adult Savages and Civilized Children: An Investigation of the Scientific Basis of EducationUniversity of Chicago Press, 1910 - 94 páginas |
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Página 51 - Chickamy, chickamy, cramery, crow, I went to the well to wash my toe, When I came back my chicken was gone. Pausing before the fire-builder, the mother asks, in continuation of the song, "What time is it, old witch?
Página 22 - They are excellent mimics: as often as we coughed or yawned, or made any odd motion, they immediately imitated us. Some of our party began to squint and look awry; but one of the young Fuegians (whose whole face was painted black, excepting a white band across his eyes) succeeded in making far more hideous grimaces. They could repeat with perfect correctness each word in any sentence we addressed them, and they remembered such words for some time.
Página 14 - Nurtunja was laid on one side, and the performers, taking each a little bit of down from it, pressed this in turn against the stomach of each of the older men who were present. The idea of placing hands upon the performers is that thereby their movements are stopped, whilst the meaning of the down being pressed against the stomachs of the older men is that they become so agitated with emotion by witnessing the sacred ceremony that their inward parts, that is, their bowels, which are regarded as the...
Página 57 - The third group was made up of the smaller children, and one of the older but more bashful girls. They generally indulged in simple representative games, but spent a large portion of their time running from one part of the yard to another because of some passing whim,— over to the faucet to get a drink, or over to the sand-pile to see what the others were doing.
Página 16 - ... in the bush ; but on the other hand, just like a child, he can with ease forget anything unpleasant and enter perfectly into the enjoyment of the present moment. Granted always that his food supply is abundant, it may be said that the life of the Australian native is, for the most part, a pleasant one.
Página 22 - They could repeat with perfect correctness each word in any sentence we addressed them, and they remembered such words for some time. Yet we Europeans all know how difficult it is to distinguish apart the sounds in a foreign language.
Página 14 - ... palm turned to the face, and the fingers loosely opened out is rapidly moved backwards and forwards on the wrist just in front of the mouth, giving a very peculiar vibratory effect to the voice. At this summons all the men on the ground came up at a run, shouting as they approached, "wh'a! u<ha! wh'r-rr!
Página 76 - ... (All that is needed then to account for "instinctive" play is the impulse to act, and this he has at birth, endowed as he is with sensitivity to stimulation. For the rest, the child's environment, both physical and social, pours in...
Página 77 - Tell me a story,' and see, a little later, the story epitomized in dramatic representation. ... Is it not significant that whatever the type of play may be, it just keeps pace with the type of somatic growth...
Página 6 - Leading us to infer that almost any stone could be used as a spiritual interpreter. We saw no musical instrument at the village where "bugs are plenty," nor did we expect to find any musical tendencies in so silent a people; but when we asked the chief of the Rock Veddahs if they knew how to dance, he at once sat down on the steps of the rest-house, and his four younger followers took their places in the roadway. Then the old chief sang or chanted in a dismal minor key, and the men, keeping step...