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New Aspects of Human Ethology (Hardcover)
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Rough-and-tumble play provided one of the paradigmatic examples of
the appli- tion of ethological methods, back in the 1970's. Since
then, a modest number of - searchers have developed our knowledge
of this kind of activity, using a variety of methods, and
addressing some quite fundamental questions about age changes, sex
diff- ences, nature and function of behaviour. In this chapter I
will review work on this topic, mentioning particularly the
interest in comparing results from different informants and
different methods of investigation. Briefly, rough-and-tumble play
(or R&T for short) refers to a cluster of behaviours whose core
is rough but playful wrestling and tumbling on the ground; and
whose general characteristic is that the behaviours seem to be
agonistic but in a non-serious, playful c- text. The varieties of
R&T, and the detailed differences between rough-and-tumble play
and real fighting, will be discussed later. 2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF
RESEARCH ON R&T In his pioneering work on human play, Groos
(1901) described many kinds of rough-and-tumble play. However,
R&T was virtually an ignored topic from then until the late
1960's. There was, of course, a flowering of observational research
on children in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in North America;
but this research had a strong practical o- entation, and lacked
the cross-species perspective and evolutionary orientation present
in Groos' work.
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