Saharan – North African – Amazigh Children's Toy Catalogs: Donation to Musée du Jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne, first part: dolls and toy animals

Engaged since 1975 in research on games and toys and later on in experiments in the field of intercultural education based on this research, the idea slowly matured to create a collection called Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures. A toy and play culture that rightly should be part of the cultural heritage of humanity, just as the masterpieces of art and architecture. In January 2015 I began to write a series of catalogs to provide access to interested researchers and other persons to the about 1250 toys and other playthings which I donated to museums and socio-cultural associations. As the donation to Musée du Jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne includes about 700 toys, I divided the catalog of this gift into three parts. The first part shows dolls and toy animals of Moroccan and Tunisian children. In order to make the information on Saharan and North African games and toys available to people reading English as well as to those reading French, to stimulate the exchange of information and the reciprocal enrichment of ideas and actions between the French-speaking and the English-speaking world, who otherwise remain too often separated by a linguistic cleavage, the studies are published in English and in French. To facilitate a large distribution of the information on Saharan and North African games and toys, the volumes of the collection Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures are freely available on: the author’s website: http://www. sanatoyplay.org - Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/JeanPierreRossie- Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/jean_pierre_rossie