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Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play reflects the critical efforts of its editors. They have organized recent, quality play scholarship into six thematic sections, including Theorizing Play, Traditional Play, Children's Play, Playful Primates, Resistant Play, and Intertextual Play.

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Author:   Margaret Carlisle Duncan ,  Garry Chick ,  Alan Aycock
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   Vol 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781567503715

ISBN 10:   1567503713
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   08 May 1998
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series Introduction PART I. THEORIZING PLAY Introduction, Margaret Carlisle Duncan Do Machinists Play with Machines? Work and Outdoor Recreation Among Employees in the Western Pennsylvania Machine-Tool Industry, Garry Chick and Robert D. Hood Play in Culture and the Jargon of Primordiality: A Critique of Homo Ludens, Mechthild Nagel Playing Against the Self: Representation and Evolution, David Myers PART II. TRADITIONAL PLAY. Introduction, Alan Aycock. The Cultural Dilemma of Traditional Games, Roland Renson A Sociocultural Comparison of Nigerian and American Children's Games, Evangeline E. Nwokah and Clara Ikekeonwu Young Children's Play in Socio-Cultural Context: South Korea and the United States, Jonathan Tudge, Soeun Lee, and Sarah Putnam PART III. CHILDREN'S PLAY Introduction, Garry Chick The Adaptive Powers of Being Playful, Lynn A. Barnett Measuring Playfulness: Development of the Child Behaviors Inventory of Playfulness, Cosby S. Rogers, James C. Impara, Robert B. Frary, Teresa Harris, Amy Meeks, Susan Semanic-Lauth, and Mary Ruth Reynolds Construct Validity of the Children's Playfullness Scale, Anita C. Bundy and Jeanne L. Clifton The Impact of Positioning Equipment on Play Skills of Physically Impaired Children, Jane O'Brien, Tonya Boatwright, Jennifer Chaplin, Charlene Geckler, Doug Gosnell, Jenni Holcombe, and Kelsey Parrish PART IV. PLAYFUL PRIMATES Introduction, Garry Chick Reactivity and Play and Exploration Behaviors of Young Rhesus Monkeys, Rosemary Bolig, Cristofer S. Price, Peggy L. O'Neill-Wagner, and Stephen J. Suomi Social Play and Estrous Cycle: The Relationship Between Social Play and Estrous Cycle in a Captive Adolescent Female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), Lisa Drummer New, Daniel S. Cunningham, and Karen Sughrue PART V. RESISTANT PLAY Introduction, Margaret Carlisle Duncan The 49th Paradox: The 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games and Canadian Identity as Contested Terrain, Steven J. Jackson Symbolic Inversion in the Subculture of Skateboarding, Becky Beal The Pleasures of Resistance: The Subversion of the Martial Arts, Margeret Carlisle Duncan PART VI. INTERTEXTUAL PLAY Introduction, Alan Aycock What's the Matter with Falstaff?: The Structure of Play in the First Part of King Henry IV, Kate Levin Owning Up: Bourdieu and Commodified Play in the USCF Chess Catalogue, Alan Aycock (Un)toward Joy: Movement, Sport, and (the meaning of) Life, Synthia Slowikowski and Nate Kohn Author Index Subject Index

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?Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.?-American Studies International Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes. -American Studies International

"?Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.?-American Studies International ""Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.""-American Studies International"

?Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.?-American Studies International

?Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.?-American Studies International ""Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.""-American Studies International

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