Description
| Product ID: | 9780674005815 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Ambiguity of Play |
| Authors: | Author: Brian Sutton-Smith |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Psychology, Psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Is play an adaptation that teaches us skills and inducts us into communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or fate, deployed in games of chance, or daydreaming, enacted in art? Sutton-Smith considers each possibility as framed in disciplines ranging from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology. |
| Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-05-15 |
