商品簡介
Chappell (performance studies, California State U., Fullerton) collects 13 essays on the roles of material culture and cultural performance in socializing children through their play. A group of play, theater, anthropology, English, and other scholars and educators based in the US, Canada, Israel, and Norway examine how play impacts identity, how children resist adult constructions and representations of their bodies through play, and the ethics and morality of play, toys, games, play spaces, and activities. Specific chapters explore how online environments structure girlhood; Canadian indigenous youth, health, and wellness; child-invented games in the Mbya culture of South America; pretend play and gender; young people's recreation of songs from High School Musical; notions of good and evil at Disneyland; the development of cyber-multiculturalism through online social networking; and other topics. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
The Editor: Drew Chappell is a graduate of both the M.F.A. program in theatre for youth at the University of Texas at Austin and the Ph.D. program in theatre at Arizona State University. He teaches at California State University, Fullerton, and is a working playwright.