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The future of play theory : a multidisciplinary inquiry into the contributions of Brian Sutton-Smith
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- Creator
- edited by Anthony D. Pellegrini
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995]
- ©1995
- Physical Details
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- x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780791426418, 0791426416, 9780791426425, 0791426424
- OCLC
- ocm31435049
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / Anthony D. Pellegrini -- 1. Play, Ethology, and Education: A Personal Account / Peter K. Smith -- 2. Animal Play, Games of Angels, Biology, and Brian / Robert Fagen -- 3. Children's Play and Adult Leisure / Garry Chick and Lynn A. Barnett -- 4. Competitive Play on the Plains: An Analysis of Games and Warfare Among Native American Warrior Societies, 1800-1850 / John W. Loy and Graham L. Hesketh -- 5. Boys' Rough-and-Tumble Play and Social Competence: Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Relations / Anthony D. Pellegrini -- 6. Aggressive Toy Play / Jeffrey Goldstein -- 7. Toys and Stories / Greta G. Fein -- 8. The Promotion and Marketing of Toys: Time to Rethink the Paradox? / Stephen Kline -- 9. Imaginative Play in Childhood: Precursor of Subjunctive Thoughts, Daydreaming, and Adult Pretending Games / Jerome L. Singer -- 10. Social Pretend with Mother and Sibling: Individual Differences and Social Understanding / Lisa M. Youngblade and Judy Dunn -- 11. Representing Children's Play: Anthropologists at Work / Helen B. Schwartzman -- 12. Past Play: Relics, Memory, and History / Bernard Mergen -- Conclusion: The Persuasive Rhetorics of Play / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Appendix: A List of Brian Sutton-Smith's Play-Related Publications / F. F. McMahon