Saharan – North African – Amazigh Children's Toy Catalogs: Donation to Centro per la Cultura Ludica in Turin

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. The book about the donation to the Centro per la Cultura Ludica is the first volume of this series, that is part of the collection Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures. 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