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The Ambiguity of Play

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Description for The Ambiguity of Play Paperback. A study of what it means to play. The book explores play theory as elaborated and debated in disciplines from biology and psychology to mathematics, and analyzes the implications of play in areas such as child development and the Western work ethic, examining the values dictating forms of play. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JMAL; JMC; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.

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 proposed, elaborated, and debated in disciplines from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology.

Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct “rhetorics”—the ancient discourses of Fate, Power, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674005815
SKU
V9780674005815
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Brian Sutton-Smith
Brian Sutton-Smith was Professor of Education, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews for The Ambiguity of Play
Brian Sutton-Smith presents a lively, contemplative and challenging theoretical discussion of the ‘category of diverse learnings’…that make up play… Sutton-Smith presents a variety of play dimensions that cause disturbance of theoretical certainty and bring together hitherto unconnected ideas on play in the tradition of creativity. The book explores its chosen rhetorics in a scholarly and yet undeniably accessible way. The ... Read more

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