Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Parents and children playing / K. MacDonald
  • Dilemmas in adult play with children / B. Sutton-Smith
  • Parent-infant games as dynamic social systems / A. Fogel, et al.
  • Parent-infant play as a window on infant competence : An organizational approach to assessment / M. Beeghley
  • Parent-child play : An evolutionary perspective / K. MacDonald
  • Rough and tumble play : A fundamental brain process / J. Panksepp
  • Lessons from primate play / M. Biben and S.J. Suomi
  • Parent-child physical play : Determinants and consequences / J. Carson, et al.
  • The necessary lightness of mother-child play / P. Levenstein and J. O'Hara
  • Mother-infant play and maternal depression / J.F. Cohn
  • Peekaboo across cultures : How mothers and infants play with voices, faces, and expectations / A. Fernald and D.K. O'Neill
  • Gentle play partners : Mother-child and father-child play in New Delhi, India / J.L. Roopnarine, et al.
  • [cont.] "Mother, older sibling and me" : The overlapping roles of caregivers and companions in the social world of two- to three-year-olds in Ngeca, Kenya / C.P. Edwards and B.B. Whiting
  • Persistence of play and feeding interaction differences in three Miami cultures / T.M. Field
  • Cultural differences in scaffolding pretend play : A comparison of American and Mexican mother-child and sibling-child pairs / J.A.M. Farver
  • The cultural context of mother-infant play in the newborn period / J.K. Nugent, et al.