Amazigh Children’s Toys and Play Cultures

Amazigh Children’s Toys and Play Cultures

Jean-Pierre Rossie, Aline Castañeda Cadena

Volume 18, Number 1 (2019) 18 (1): 4-36


Keywords play, toys and games, Amazigh, Shawia, Tuareg

Abstract

This article shows handmade toys, and the games in which they are used, by indigenous children from the large group of Amazigh peoples living in North Africa and the Sahara.

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Jean-Pierre Rossie

Aline Castañeda Cadena

Published June 1, 2019

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Amazigh Children’s Toys and Play Cultures. (2019). Fourth World Journal, 18(1), 4-36. https://doi.org/10.63428/4h09b794

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