Man, play, and games / Roger Caillois ; translated from the French by Meyer Barash.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001.Description: xi, 208 p. 20 cmISBN: - 025207033X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Jeux et les hommes. English
- 306.4/87 21
- GN454 .C35 2001
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Translation of: Les jeux et les hommes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part. 1. Play and games: theme--The definition of play--The classification of games--The social function of games--The corruption of games--Toward a sociology derived from games--Part. 2. Play and games: variations--An expanded theory of games--Simulation and vertigo--Competition and chance--Revivals in the modern world--Appendix: 1. The importance of games of chance ; 2. Psychological and mathematical approaches.
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