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Play and the human condition / Thomas S. Henricks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henricks, Thomas S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Play--Social aspects.
- Play.
- Play--Psychological aspects.
- Self-realization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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 implications for those settings.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252097058
- 025209705X
- OCLC:
- 964546465
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