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The Masks of play / Brian Sutton-Smith, Diana Kelly-Byrne.

Title
The Masks of play / Brian Sutton-Smith, Diana Kelly-Byrne.
Publication
New York : Leisure Press, ©1984.

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Additional Authors
  • Sutton-Smith, Brian
  • Kelly-Byrne, Diana
Description
200 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Conference proceedings of The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, held in London, Ontario in March of 1982.
Subject
  • Play > Congresses
  • Festivals > Congresses
  • Play
  • Play > Social aspects
  • Play > Psychological aspects
  • Play and Playthings
  • Jeu
  • Jeu > Aspect social
  • Jeu > Aspect psychologique
  • Jeu > Congrès
  • play (recreation)
  • Festivals
  • Kongress
  • Kulturanthropologie
  • Spiel
  • Maskerspelen
  • Recreacao
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Actes de congrès.
  • London (Ontario, 1982)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-199).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Festival play: The social structuring of expressive activities in two cultures / Finnegan Alford. Play, performance and social commentary : the Alikali Devils of Sierra Leone / Jeanne Cannizzo. Carnival in Canada : the politics of celebration / Frank E. Manning. Festivals and the organization of meaning : an introduction to community festivals in Minnesota / Robert H. Lavenda [and others]. Boys into men--state into nation : rites de passage in student life and college athletics, 1890-1905 / Roberta J. Park. The fool and the hippies : ritual/play and social inconsistencies among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai / Smadar Lavie -- Adult recreation and games: The divergent evolution of competitive cycling in the United States and Europe : a materialist perspective / David N. Maynard. Play or pathology : a new look at the gambler and his world / Martin McGurrin, Vicki Abt, James Smith. "Morti, morti, morti" : the death of a bocce ball club / Bruce Pierini -- Child's play: Play and social cognition / E.P. Johnsen, James F. Christie. Play activities and elementary school peer groups / Andrew W. Miracle, Jr., Brian Rowan, David N. Suggs. Levitation and trance sessions at preadolescent girls' slumber parties / Elizabeth Tucker. Vicissitudes of play in child analysis : a seven year old child tells his unique intrapsychic story / Maurice Apprey -- Animal play: The perilous magic of animal play / Robert Fagen. The child is father to the man : neoteny and play in human evolution / Richard D. Alford -- Theory of human play: The meaning of play's triviality / Diana Kelly-Byrne. Continuity and discontinuity in play : the adult-child connection / Diana Kelly-Byrne.
ISBN
  • 0880112085
  • 9780880112086
LCCN
83080745
OCLC
  • 14167135
  • SCSB-10327268
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library