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Identifier

000424104

Title

Κοινωνικός κόσμος και παιχνίδι : μια ανθρωπολογική μελέτη του παιχνιδιού tantara των παιδιών της Μαδαγασκάρης

Alternative Title

Social world and game : an anthropological study of the play "tantara" of the children of Madagascar

Author

Παπαχαντζή, Ειρήνη

Thesis advisor

Γκούνης Κώστας

Reviewer

Δαφέρμος Μανόλης
Πουρκός Μάριος

Abstract

In Madagascar one can find almost everywhere the symbolic game named tantara played mainly by girls. Once they choose small stones to represent different persons – roles, they narrate entire family stories in the form of dialogues between two persons, while they hit rhythmically one stone with another. This study aims to showcase this traditional game as well as to investigate to what extent these oral narratives reflect the historical, social and cultural aspects of children’s everyday lives (Vygotsky, 1930/1997). Following a participant observation method of children’s everyday lives in different regions of Madagascar, we video recorded seventeen tantara games which we translated and analyzed. While maintaining a phenomenological background, we follow the notion of “thick description” (Geertz,1973) in an effort to render the children’s detailed and accurate discourse. The videos were double coded using the thematic analysis method in order to designate the meaning of the children’s experiences. The forty-one themes that emerged depict the socially and culturally determined interactions on an interpersonal, family and community level. Thus, we conclude that, by playing the game tantara, children create a safe potential space where they can experiment with hierarchic structures or social contracts, with the stressful situations of the everyday life, the fragile family bond, the threatened position of the child within the family context or the conditions of the economic crisis and extreme poverty that rank Madagascar among the poorest countries in the world.

Language

Greek

Subject

Children of Madagascar

Symbolic game

Tantara

Thematic analysis

Thick description

Vygotsky

Θεματική ανάλυση

Ιστορική και πολιτισμική θεωρία Vygotsky

Κοινωνική