AUTHOR=García-Monge Alfonso , Rodríguez-Navarro Henar , Bores-García Daniel TITLE=New Images for Old Symbols: Meanings That Children Give to a Traditional Game JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676590 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676590 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Traditional games are considered agents of enculturation. This article explores the procedure to access the cultural meanings transmitted in a traditional game. The goal is to understand what children aged 6–11 make of the game called ‘the chained bear’ and to compare the meanings retrieved with those of different traditional versions of the game. For such a purpose, through an exploratory cross-sectional study, cartoons depicting people playing the game were exhibited and viewers (