From the child’s point of view, games are not simply part of life; rather, all life is a game.
The perception of the world of a child at play is double… He inhabits a world in which “reality” and “unreality” coexist. …. a child’s world is closely connected with [the concepts of] “passion,” “imagination,” “dreams.” Its links with the unconscious are many, and it should perhaps be interpreted in the same way as mythology and archaic mentality.
Folk Culture and the Liminality of Children | Author(s): Yoshiharu Iijima | Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research | Aug. – Oct., 1987
I have not attempted a historical reconstruction of the order of events in David’s return from his Trans-Jordanian exile; I am, for the purposes of this study, uninterested in what David actually did.
David’s crossing of the river in forms the transitional stage of this smaller, nested rite of passage, after which his various inter actions with his subjects-Mephibosheth, Shimei, the Judahites and Israelites-serve to reincorporate the king into the community.
… any person who considers that he has been wronged by the chief elect in the past is entitled to revile him and most fully express his resent ment, going into as much detail as he desires. The chief-elect, during all this, has to sit silently with downcast head, “the pattern of all patience” and humility … The chief may not resent any of this or hold it against the perpetrators in times to come.
The Left Bank of the Jordan and the Rites of Passage: An Anthropological Interpretation of 2 Samuel XIX | Author(s): Jeremy M. Hutton | Published by: Brill | Accessed: Oct., 2006
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