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Play and the human condition / Thomas S. Henricks.

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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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