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The Ambiguity of Play - Sutton-Smith, Brian
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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.

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The Ambiguity of Play 2001, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674005815

Revised edition

Trade paperback

The Ambiguity of Play 1998, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674017337

Hardcover