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New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game
Traditional games are considered agents of enculturation. This article explores the procedure to access the cultural meanings transmitted in a traditional game. The goal is to understand what children aged 6–11 make of the game called ‘the chained bear’ and to compare the meanings retrieved with tho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34045999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676590 |
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author | García-Monge, Alfonso Rodríguez-Navarro, Henar Bores-García, Daniel |
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description | Traditional games are considered agents of enculturation. This article explores the procedure to access the cultural meanings transmitted in a traditional game. The goal is to understand what children aged 6–11 make of the game called ‘the chained bear’ and to compare the meanings retrieved with those of different traditional versions of the game. For such a purpose, through an exploratory cross-sectional study, cartoons depicting people playing the game were exhibited and viewers (n = 359; age range: 6–11; Mean age = 8.79; SD = 1.81) were asked to interpret them as a drama play, as well as contributing a title, a plot and saying how they would name the characters. The results show that, beyond the individual images that each child created in their mind, most of them coincided in stories about harassment and defense and theft and protection. These plots match those of the ludic tradition, showing that the actions evoke different pictures to each individual, but share common cultural meanings in turn. The study shows a procedure to access the meanings that traditional games transmit and confirms that games contain pieces of culture, which makes them agents of enculturation. |
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spelling | pubmed-81444962021-05-26 New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game García-Monge, Alfonso Rodríguez-Navarro, Henar Bores-García, Daniel Front Psychol Psychology Traditional games are considered agents of enculturation. This article explores the procedure to access the cultural meanings transmitted in a traditional game. The goal is to understand what children aged 6–11 make of the game called ‘the chained bear’ and to compare the meanings retrieved with those of different traditional versions of the game. For such a purpose, through an exploratory cross-sectional study, cartoons depicting people playing the game were exhibited and viewers (n = 359; age range: 6–11; Mean age = 8.79; SD = 1.81) were asked to interpret them as a drama play, as well as contributing a title, a plot and saying how they would name the characters. The results show that, beyond the individual images that each child created in their mind, most of them coincided in stories about harassment and defense and theft and protection. These plots match those of the ludic tradition, showing that the actions evoke different pictures to each individual, but share common cultural meanings in turn. The study shows a procedure to access the meanings that traditional games transmit and confirms that games contain pieces of culture, which makes them agents of enculturation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8144496/ /pubmed/34045999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676590 Text en Copyright © 2021 García-Monge, Rodríguez-Navarro and Bores-García. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology García-Monge, Alfonso Rodríguez-Navarro, Henar Bores-García, Daniel New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game |
title | New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game |
title_full | New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game |
title_fullStr | New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game |
title_full_unstemmed | New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game |
title_short | New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game |
title_sort | new images for old symbols: meanings that children give to a traditional game |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34045999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676590 |
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