Doll Play of Pilagá Indian Children: By Jules and Zunia Henry. New York: American Orthopsychiatric Association, Research Monographs No. 4. 1944. 133 pp.

This is the best and most extensive field work done on any group of children in a primitive society.

The authors summarize their conclusions as follows:

The study of Pilagá intrafamilial relationships shows that under similar conditions of familial tension children in distinct cultures will develop the same kind of symptom patterns.

The study of Pilagá children shows also that the patterns of behavior in sibling rivalry among them follow with little difference those found in our own society. The most important difference between the sibling rivalry patterns in our society and those found among the Pilagá is that among the Pilagá remorse and self-punishment do not occur as the consequences of hostility. Inasmuch, however, as remorse and self-punishment, while outstanding as general cultural sanctions in our own culture do not occur in Pilagá culture at all it must be concluded that the difference in the sibling rivalry pattern between the two cultures is culturally determined (p. 80).