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Play and the human condition /

Thomas S. Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play - the psyche, the body, the environment, society and culture - Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henricks, Thomas S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Variations on a theme
  • Play compared to other behaviors
  • Play as sense-making
  • The psychology of play
  • Play's nature
  • Play and the physical environment
  • The social life of play
  • Cultural play
  • The play of possibility
  • References
  • Index.