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The Ambiguity of Play

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Availability:In StockContributor:Brian Sutton-SmithPublish date:2001-05-15Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674005815ISBN-10:674005813UPC:9780674005815Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, EducationBook Subcategory:Sociology, DevelopmentalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCQ9VB15X5

The Ambiguity of Play

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it has been...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674005815ISBN-10:674005813UPC:9780674005815Book Category:Social Science, Psychology, EducationBook Subcategory:Sociology, DevelopmentalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCQ9VB15X5
Sutton-Smith, Brian: - Brian Sutton-Smith was Professor of Education, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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