Replacement of neanderthals by modern humans series· 2016· Book chapter
Evening Play: Acquainting Toddlers with Dangers and Fear at Yuendumu, Northern Territory
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Short summary
Warlpiri toddlers (2-2.5 years old) in Yuendumu, Australia, are intentionally exposed to and then comforted from fear during nightly play sessions as a method of social learning.
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Key points
- Nightly play sessions in Yuendumu involve Warlpiri toddlers aged 2-2.5 years.
- These sessions focus on intentionally inducing and then relieving fear in the children.
- The play is analyzed as a mechanism for social learning and understanding the world.
- Practices are linked to other documented instances in Aboriginal Australian anthropology.
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Abstract
Based on research with Warlpiri people at the Aboriginal town of Yuendumu in Central Australia, this chapter provides ethnographic material on and analysis of an Aboriginal extended family group’s nightly play sessions, focusing on three toddlers (between 2 and 2.5 years old). These sessions happen after dinner and before the toddlers fall asleep, when family members spend the evening in the camp, socialising. All action focused on the toddlers during this time has to do with inducing and relieving fear. I relate these sessions to others described in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia and read them as part of larger processes of social learning through which Warlpiri children acquire understanding of their world and how they fit into it.
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Field: Archeology (Social Sciences)
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