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The Ambiguity of Play

By Brian Sutton-Smith

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674044180
DOI
10.4159/9780674044180
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18297888 bytes)
Pages
416\288
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 07:37:31

Description

Is play an adaptation that teaches us skills and inducts us into communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or fate, deployed in games of chance, or daydreaming, enacted in art? Sutton-Smith considers each possibility as framed in disciplines ranging from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology.

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