1. DESERT CHILDREN Toys & Play in the Tunisian Sahara & the Moroccan Mountains

2. Jean-Pierre Rossie Sociocultural anthropologist, Toy Museum, Sidi Ifni © 2006 J-P. Rossie

3. In the Tunisian Sahara 1975

4. From studying socialisation to studying play and toys

5. Saharan and North African play activities and toys Regions and populations Sources of information Continuity and change Research results Sand Desert

6. Stone Desert

7. Rural Worlds

8. Urban Worlds

9. Sources of Information F ieldwork in the Tunisian Sahara (1975-1977) and in Morocco (1992- ) An important collection of toys from North Africa and the Sahara at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris (transfered to the new Musée du Quai Branly) The bibliography refering to the concerned regions

10. Continuity

11. Change

12. Research results Toy collection donated to the French Toy Museum for the project Jouets du Monde World Toys Publications

13. Jean-Pierre Rossie (2005) Toys, play, culture and society An anthropological approach with reference to North Africa and the Sahara 256 p., 144 ill. with included CD Information on: www.sanatoyplay.org

14. On the CD included in this book one finds The 144 original color or black and white photos The volumes of the collection Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures Children’s dolls and doll play, 2005, 328 p., 163 ill. The animal world in play, games and toys, 2005, 229 p., 107 ill. Commented bibliography on play, games and toys, 2005, 61 p. Next year a new volume will be published Domestic life in play, games and toys, 240 ill. Two more volumes are planned Technical activities in play, games and toys Games of skill and chance

15. Three topics of toys and play activities are discussed Children’s creativity with natural and waste material Adult-child and child-child relations in toys and play Rituals and feasts in play activities and toys

16. When playing and creating toys children use a lot of natural material of mineral origin

18. of vegetal origin

20. of animal origin

21. Children use also much waste material

23. They use all resources available

24. And show a surprising inventiveness

25. Second-hand toys adapted to local manners

26. Technical discoveries modeling

27. Constructing vehicles

28. Simple wheels Complex wheels

29. Making one’s own skateboard

30. Globalisation of the toy market

31. Children’s know-how

32. Dolls without a face Dolls with a face

33. Modernised doll

34. Girl’s doll

35. Dolls for tourists

36. Adult-child relations Mother and child

37. Mother doll and her baby

38. Father and child

39. Big brother and little brother

40. The Sidi Ifni toy creator

41. Big girls or little mothers

43. Playgroups and the role of peers

46. Playing nomads’ life

47. Playing farmers’ life

48. Interpretation of women’s worlds

50. Girls’ dreams Matrimonial realities

51. Interpretation of men’s worlds Working in the oasis

52. Trading

53. Girls’ games

56. Boys’ games

59. Feasts and rituals

60. Mulud

61. Ashura

63. Sand mosque

65. Ritual for a child late in starting to walk

66. Everyone a musician

69. Initiation to dancing

71. Emigrants and gifts of toys

72. Children’s culture

73. Culture for children

74. Intercultural projects based on Saharan & North-African play, games & toys

77. Jean-Pierre Rossie (2005) Toys, play, culture and society An anthropological approach with reference to North Africa and the Sahara 256 p., 144 ill. with included CD Information on: www.sanatoyplay.org