The Ambiguity of Play

Brian Sutton-Smith

Harvard University Press, 2001

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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.

ISBN-13
9780674005815
ISBN-10
0674005813
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2001
Publication date
2001-05-15
Pages
288
Dimensions
228x150x17
Weight
452