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The Ambiguity of Play

Author Brian Sutton-Smith

Format Paperback

Publisher Harvard University Press

Category Parenting

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Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics" - the ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory.

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Brian Sutton-Smith

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Release Date: 2001-06-14
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780674005815

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