Research Catalog

Title

• Play and culture : 1978 proceedings of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play / edited by Helen B. Schwartzman.

Author

Association for the Anthropological Study of Play. Meeting (4th : 1978 : University of Notre Dame)

Publication

West Point, N.Y. : Leisure Press, c1980.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Schwartzman, Helen B.

Description

328 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• [Association for the Anthropological Study of Play ; v. 4]

Uniform Title

Association for the Anthropological Study of Play (Series) v. 4.

Subject

• Play > Congresses
• Play and Playthings

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A "sportive" theory of play / Brian Sutton-Smith -- From festival of progress to masque of degradation : carnival in Caracas as a changing metaphor for social reality / Robert H. Lavenda -- Play, literature and the poetry of George Herbert / Anna K. Nardo -- Paradox, play and post-modern fiction / John Schwartzman -- Theoretical implications for the study of interrelationships between ritual and play / Steven J. Fox -- Re-thinking naven : play and identity / Don Handelman -- Play in ritual : an ethnohistorical overview of Native North America / Michael A. Salter -- Sport and ritual in Choctaw society : structure and perspective / Kendall Blanchard -- Athletics : the ritual of a technological society? / J.H. Duthie -- School spirit as a ritual by-product : views from applied anthropology / Andrew W. Miracle Jr. -- Spontaneous play and social learning in the nursery school / William A. Corsaro and Graham Tomlinson -- White ritual insults / James P. Leary --^
• Verbal aggression in rugby ritual / John F. Sherry Jr. -- Distinctive features of play and games : a folk model from Southern Africa / Charles R. Adams -- Play in the desert and play in the town : on play activities of Bedouin Arab children / Shlomo Ariel and Irene Sever -- Reinforcement and helping patterns in children's games / Bruce G. Klonsky -- Attitudes of Iowa children toward their play / Jan Beran -- Playgrounds and playground equipment, 1885-1925 : defining play in urban America / Bernard Mergen -- Sacred and profane play in the Boy Scouts of America / Jay Mechling -- Discussion of papers by Mergen and Mechlong / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Games of strategy : a new look at correlates and cross-cultural methods / Philip Townshend -- Comment on "Games of strategy : a new look at correlates and cross-cultural methods" / John M. Roberts -- The work of playing "redlight" / Christine A. von Glascoe --^
• Pop a wheelie! : life and death symbolism of radio-controlled model car racing / Susan H. Boyd -- Mopan Maya dice games from the southern Peten / Pierre Ventur -- Women and trapshooting : competence and expression in a game of physical skill with chance / John M. Roberts and Susan Nattrass -- De-ethnocentrizing humor theory / Lawrence La Fave -- Interactive incongruity humor theory depicted in social-normative humor experiments / Sarah Yee Wah Tsang and Ann Marie Guilmette -- Effects of organized play experiences on social norms / J.K. Tyler and J.H. Duthie -- Play and work : a false dichotomy? / Phillips Stevens Jr. -- Work and play : the Kpelle case / David F. Lancy.

ISBN

0918438527 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^80138074^

OCLC

6263718

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library