mike,
The anthropologist, Billie Jean Isbell, conducted a long term study of
cognitive development in the Andes in the 70s from a piagetian perspective
in which she related riddles to different developmental stages up through
adolescence. One of the articles I remember was "Ontogenesis of Metaphor".
Fascinating stuff.
Paul H. Dillon
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: Riddles
> Gary-- When I worked in Liberia, riddles were serious business. I have a
> paper where I use an analysis of riddling done as a form of local
intelligence-
> manifesting behavior, a complex mode of social interaction and social
> control.
>
> Interesting observation that the status of riddles has thus "declined"
> to that their absence is a puzzle, not a riddle.
> mike
>
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