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Author: Thomas S. Henricks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780252039072
ISBN 10: 0252039076
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 April 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title... An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening. --American Journal of Play This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it. --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play
This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it. --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play
This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it. --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title... An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening. --American Journal of Play
"""This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it."" --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play ""Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title… An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening.""--American Journal of Play ""Profound and reasonable, accessible and well-written, and wide-ranging while confident of the details of past scholarship and current theory over a range of disciplines. This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it.""--Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play"
This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it. --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title... An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening. --American Journal of Play
Author Information
Thomas S. Henricks is the Danieley Professor of Sociology at Elon University and author of Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression.
