Introduction
The game: a Social Sciences and Humanities objectFollowing, in a more or less critical way, Johan Huizinga (1980 [1949])’s steps, few authors successfully demonstrated the legitimacy of studies of play practices in the Social Sciences. Exceptions are Roger Caillois – beyond the usual limits, partic...
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| Summary: | The game: a Social Sciences and Humanities objectFollowing, in a more or less critical way, Johan Huizinga (1980 [1949])’s steps, few authors successfully demonstrated the legitimacy of studies of play practices in the Social Sciences. Exceptions are Roger Caillois – beyond the usual limits, particularly empirical ones, of his approach to the game object - with his call to make a "sociology based on Games" (2001 [1961]), or Clifford Geertz (1973), who hypothesized that the game is a signific... |
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