Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
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.
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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.
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Play and the human condition
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Play-- Psychological aspects.
Play-- Social aspects.
Self-realization.
Play-- Psychological aspects.
Play-- Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.