Play: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

by McMahon, Felicia; Lytle, Donald E.; Sutton-Smith, Brian; Fagen, : Robert; O'Neill-Wagner, Peggy; Reed, Thomas L.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope; Rossie, Jean-Pierre; Menon, Kalyani Devaki; Trageton, Arne; Romeo, Lynn; Andrews, Kristie L.; Lofdahl, Annica L.; Holm

• ISBN13: 9780761830429
• ISBN10: 0761830421
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Play: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis is co-published with the Association for the Study of Play (TASP), an interdisciplinary, international organization of play research scholars. This volume, the sixth in the Play and Culture TASP series, synthesizes biological, anthropological, educational, and psychological approaches to play.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
I. Evolutionary Resonances for Play	1	(72)
Introduction
Play, Five Gates of Evolution, and Paths to Art	9	(34)
Robert Fagen
Video Entertainment May Facilitate Recovery for Monkeys in a Clinical Setting	43	(10)
Peggy O'Neill-Wagner
A Qualitative Approach to Boys' Rough and Tumble Play: There Is More Than What Meets the Eye	53	(20)
Thomas L. Reed
II. Cross Cultural Play Variations	73	(82)
Introduction
Children's Play in Cross-Cultural Perspective; A New Look at the ``Six Cultures'' Study	81	(16)
Carolyn Pope Edwards
Children's Play and Toys in Changing Moroccan Communities	97	(16)
Jean-Pierre Rossie
At Work At Play: Training Hindu Nationalist Women	113	(22)
Kalyani Devaki Menon
Ludic Pathologies and Their Links to Play: Cultural and Neurocognitive Perspectives	135	(20)
Donald E. Lytle
III. The Play Sytemics of Education	155	(50)
Introduction
Play in Lower Primary School in Norway	157	(22)
Arne Trageton
The Mill Lake Hospital: Play in a Middle Classroom	179	(16)
Lynn Romeo
Kristie L. Andrews
Preschool Teachers' Conceptions of Children's ``Chaotic Play''	195	(10)
Annica L. Lofdahl
IV. The Variabilities Adult Leisure	205	(86)
Introduction
Working to Play: College Student Athletes' Conceptions of Play and Work	209	(24)
Robin M. Holmes
Community Play: At the Mall	233	(22)
Felicia McMahon
Validity and Reliability of the Experience of Leisure Scales (TELS)	255	(24)
Cheryl R. H. Meakins
Anita C. Bundy
Jeffrey Gliner
Collecting as a Form of Play	279	(12)
Paola de Sanctis Ricciardone
V. Conclusion: Playfulness and Tricksters	291	(4)
Interstitial References	295	(4)
Index	299	(4)
About the Contributors	303	(2)
Recent Titles in Play & Culture Studies Series	305