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Mazes of meaning: How a child and a culture create each other
Author(s) -
Briggs Jean L.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219925804
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , socialization , drama , psychology , meaning making , sociology , developmental psychology , aesthetics , social psychology , literature , art , psychotherapist
Emotionally charged dramas form an important part of the socialization of Inuit children. In this study, the process of meaning creation is revealed through a fine‐grained and deeply contextualized analysis of a three‐year‐old's participation in one such drama.