El juego del círculo hamoiij
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Seri women play a traditional game called the circle game or hamoiij in cmiique iitom (the Seri language). In this game, women sit (on the ground or in chairs) around a circle traced in the sand upon which slices of cactus have been placed in groups of five. Each woman has a decorated wooden stick that she lays on the circle. Each woman in turn throws wooden strips, which, depending on how they fall, produce a specific number (like dice). Each woman then moves her stick around the circle, from one slice of cactus to the next, according to the number of points indicated by the wooden strips. The goal of the game is to ‘kill’ all the other sticks.
Source: Tlalocan
Author: Jérémy Pasquereau
Institution: University of Surrey
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4236499460