ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Zande People, Sensory Deprivation, Gennep
3 May 2017
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May be important for the development of cognitive and motor skills, and may be connected with the repair of developmental damage caused by either trauma or injury. In species with more complex brains, playful exploration of the environment aids learning and allows for the development of behavioural versatility. Fagen suggests that play reflects natural selection for unpredictability to be able to produce unpredictable behaviours can be advantageous for an intelligent species faced with unanticipated adaptive challenges. Moving from everyday reality to the reality of play requires a radical transformation of perspective sometimes the switch can have serious consequences for other people and their activities. In this case, play and non-play must be signalled clearly so that one is not mistaken for the other. Schwartzmann demonstrated how play, through satire and clowning, may allow children to comment on and criticize the world of adults: powerful example describe by chin who studied african-american girls and their dolls in.
