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Loyola University New Orleans - Fall 2012 | ||
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The Ambiguity of Play (Updated Edition) by Brian Sutton-Smith, Brian Suttonand#8211 Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-674-00581-3 / 0674005813 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00581-5 / 9780674005815 Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? |