Inuit adults often challenge small children with questions that are both playful and intensely serious, both loving and dangerous.  Are you a baby? Who loves you? Are you good? Whom do you love? The questions present difficult choices, and when adults dramatize the consequences of an answer, a child may find herself in unexpectedly deep water.  Close analysis of even one interaction can teach us much about how children become cultural creatures and how cultures become psychologically powerful.

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