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Games and Sport in Everyday Life - Dialogues and Narratives of the Self (Hardcover)
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Games and Sport in Everyday Life - Dialogues and Narratives of the Self (Hardcover)
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"This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and
brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground
zero-the starting place for the next generation of theorists who
study the self, narrative theory, and the place of games and sport
in everyday life. A stunning accomplishment by one of America's
major social theorists." Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign Games of many kinds have been played in all
cultures throughout human history. This wide-ranging book explores
the social and psychological processes involved in the playing of
games. One player (or team) seeks to outwit another by undertaking
various physical and communicative moves-not unlike conversations.
Games have well-formed "narrative" structures, analogous to myths,
that are enacted by each participant to give play to his/her self
and its attendant emotions. These plays of the self enable each
agent to seek adventures and heroic moments. Going beyond the
mythmaking and catharsis that may be achieved by individuals, the
author shows how games have been devised and played in particular
societies and eras as means of promoting specific ideologies of a
society, even social ideals such as utopias.
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