Play & Culture Studies, Volume 2: Play Contexts Revisited

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This volume furthers discourse and understanding about the complex phenomenon we know as play. As with volume one, Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play, Reifel's purpose is to provide a forum for new thinking about play in humans and animals across various cultural, social, and activity settings (1998, p. xi). Necessarily, this effort cuts across various disciplines, including biology, anthropology, history, psychology, education, leisure studies, sociology, and any field in which play theories contribute. Play Contexts Revisited is comprised of sixteen contributions organized in five sections. Each section flushes out specific types of play, such as Stories of Adult's Play. Comparative contributions focus on play of other cultures and even other species. Volume two of Play & Culture Studies enriches the series with innovative articles about the many aspects and examples of play.

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[A] sophisticated presentation of theories and research on the play of young children, adults, and mammals.-Young Children
Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes.-American Studies International
"A sophisticated presentation of theories and research on the play of young children, adults, and mammals."-Young Children
"[A] sophisticated presentation of theories and research on the play of young children, adults, and mammals."-Young Children
"Readers from many disciplines will find these books stimulating and informative. Their value is enhanced by excellent bibliographies and author and subject indexes."-American Studies International

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STUART REIFEL is Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches in the early childhood education program in the College of Education./e He has studied children's play in schools and homes for the past twenty years, and specializes in the meanings of children's play in their developmental contexts. He served as President for The Association for the Study of Play.