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Why We Play: An Anthropological Study
Roberte Hamayon
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Description for Why We Play: An Anthropological Study
Paperback. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 184 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the ... Read more
Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HAU
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780986132568
SKU
V9780986132568
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Ref
99-15
About Roberte Hamayon
Roberte Hamayon is director d' tudes, emerita at the cole Practique des Hautes tudes in Paris and the author of many books. Damien Simon is a French/English translator and has worked for Brill Publishers and Houndle.
Reviews for Why We Play: An Anthropological Study
The book is written in a conversational style, rhythmically asking questions and providing answers, leading very logically from one chapter to the next, and is thus, despite its epistemological complexity, deriving from the multifariousness of the matter in question, a good read.
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