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Children's Imaginative Play: A Visit to Wonderland
In this visit to the wonderland of children's imaginative, make-believe play, readers are be exposed to both a general, bird's-eye view of the whole of this fascinating realm, and to a closer look at its diverse regions. This volume examines the borderlines between make-believe play and akin phenomena such as dreams, drama, and rituals. Readers will become acquainted with the secret codes of make-believe play. These codes are activated in both covert and overt power struggles among children as well as in the child's internal theater of emotions. Readers will have the opportunity to examine these uses by looking at real-life sociodramatic play scenes. Also, the development of make-believe play and its interface with the child's general cognitive and socioemotional development is traced. This volume enables readers to consider children of various cultures at play, and investigates whether make-believe play and its characteristics are universal or culture-specific. Make-believe play has been investigated across fields including cognitive, clinical, developmental, and social psychology, as well as linguistics, anthropology, and sociology. In this book, a comprehensive, integrative model is proposed, in which all of these approaches are synthesized into a single, coherent whole. The unifying hypothesis behind this synthesis is that make-believe play is a semiotic system, a body of signs and symbols, a language by means of which children express themselves and communicate. This language enables children to regulate and balance both their inner emotional life and their social life. Another central hypothesis is therefore that make-believe play functions as an homeostatic feedback mechanism for controlling the level of arousal around the child's central concerns, as well as the level of interpersonal conflict around issues of social proximity and power. Therapeutic and education applications of make-believe play are derived from these hypotheses and their ramifications.
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Yotvata
This book presents the final report of the excavations at
Yotvata, the largest oasis in the Arabah Valley, conducted by the
Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv
University in 1974-1980 under the direction of Dr. Zeʾev Meshel.
The report covers two central sites: a fortified Iron I site and an
Early Islamic settlement.
The Iron I remains consist of an irregular casemate wall
surrounding a courtyard. The location of this site suggests that
the settlement was established in order to protect the water
sources and to overlook and supervise the nearby crossroads. Based
on the relative proximity of the site to Timna, it may be concluded
that the oasis formed the main source of water and wood for the
population involved in copper production in that region.
The rich finds uncovered at the Early Islamic
settlement-including a large courtyard building and a nearby
bathhouse, among other structures-point to habitation from the end
of the seventh to the early ninth century CE. The proximity of the
settlement to a sophisticated irrigation system ( qanat )
and the administrative/economic ostraca discovered at the site
suggest that it served as the center of an agricultural estate
owned by an elite Muslim family. Among the unique finds is a large
assemblage of locally produced, handmade pottery, which is
thoroughly studied here.
The findings from the excavations at the Yotvata oasis have made
a major contribution to the study of Early Islamic settlement and
material culture in the greater Arabah region and beyond.
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