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Toys and Communication

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Editors:
  1. Luísa Magalhães

    1. Faculty of Philosophy and Social Scienes, Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, Portugal

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  2. Jeffrey Goldstein

    1. Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • Brings together scholars from education, anthropology, psychology, sociology, media and communication to examine the role of toys in communication and learning as well as their cultural meaning

  • Includes explorations of images of toys in art, toys in advertising, and toys and cultural transmission in Morocco and India

  • Fills a gap in current scholarship on toy research

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Toys and Communication. Preliminary Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Toys and Communication: An Introduction

      • Jeffrey Goldstein
      Pages 3-13

    3. The End of Play and the Fate of Digital Play Media: A Historical Perspective on the Marketing of Play Culture

      • Stephen Kline
      Pages 15-32

    4. Toys: Between Rhetoric of Education and Rhetoric of Fun

      • Gilles Brougère
      Pages 33-46

    5. A Toy Semiotics, Revisited

      • David Myers
      Pages 47-60

  4. Toys, Culture and Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Images of Toys in Spanish Art (15th–19th Centuries): Iconographic Languages

      • Oriol Vaz-Romero Trueba, Michel Manson
      Pages 91-115

    3. Communication in Moroccan Children’s Toys and Play

      • Jean-Pierre Rossie
      Pages 117-136

    4. Dincs as Worldviews: Things that Communicate a Mind

      • Koumudi Patil
      Pages 137-152

    5. Holocaust War Games: Playing with Genocide

      • Suzanne Seriff
      Pages 153-170

    6. Working Class Children’s Toys in Times of War and Famine. Play, Work and the Agency of Children in Piraeus Neighborhoods During the German Occupation of Greece

      • Cleo Gougoulis
      Pages 171-195

    7. Can Toy Premiums Induce Healthy Eating?

      • Carla Ferreira, Luísa Agante
      Pages 197-213

    8. You Are What You Eat: Toying with the Process of Becoming

      • Mariah Wade
      Pages 215-231

  5. Toy Design and Play Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Work and Play in a Theme Park

      • Luísa Magalhães
      Pages 235-253

    3. Design for Rebellious Play

      • Lieselotte van Leeuwen, Mathieu Gielen
      Pages 255-274
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About this book

There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including 1930’s Europe, Morocco, India, Spanish art of the 16th-19th centuries. Psychologists stress the importance of the role of toys and play in children’s language development and intellectual skills, and this book demonstrates the recurrent theme of the transmission of cultural norms through the portrayal, presentation and use of toys. The text establishes the role of toy and play park design in eliciting particular forms of play, as well as stressing the child’s use of toys to ‘become’ more adult. It will be beneficial for courses in education, developmental psychology, communications, media studies, and toy design.

Reviews

“A diverse read for anyone interested in contemporary toy research from the perspectives of children’s object play and toys as a historical communicative platform. The book also provides insightful chapters on the relationships between toys and art and designing for play – emerging areas of study which prove that the power of the toy medium ranges beyond playthings.” (Katriina Heljakka, toy and play researcher at University of Turku, Finland)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy and Social Scienes, Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, Portugal

    Luísa Magalhães

  • Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jeffrey Goldstein

About the editors

Luísa Magalhães is Researcher in Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal, and is especially interested in the relationship between children, toys and play activities. 



Jeffrey Goldstein is Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is the author or editor of 16 books and is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. 


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