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Varieties of the Gaming Experience (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,811
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Varieties of the Gaming Experience (Hardcover): Robert Perinbanayagam

Varieties of the Gaming Experience (Hardcover)

Robert Perinbanayagam

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The games that human societies devised over the centuries can be considered one of the most comprehensive and fertile symbolic systems ever created by human ingenuity. In all societies, members feel compelled to interact and communicate with each other as much as possible. As linguistic creatures, humans use language to establish social and interpersonal contacts. Games are a device to enable such connections.

Robert Perinbanayagam examines how players value games. He assesses games as systems that embody metaphysics and pragmatic action. He then examines various religious ideas and how participants reference respective approaches to game playing.

Perinbanayagam argues that games are forms of activity in which the human agent as an actor engages with others in various interactional situations. Such engagement creates dramas in which agents assume identities, give play to emotions and enrich their selves. He also examines the issue of game writing, particularly how selected writers have used game structures as narrative devices in their work.

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Imprint: AldineTransaction
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2014
First published: 2015
Editors: Robert Perinbanayagam
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-5471-9
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure
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LSN: 1-4128-5471-7
Barcode: 9781412854719

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