Non-Fiction Books:

Games and Sport in Everyday Life

Dialogues and Narratives of the Self
Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

Format:

Hardback
$207.99
RRP:
$252.00 save $44.01
Available from supplier

The item is brand new and in-stock with one of our preferred suppliers. The item will ship from a Mighty Ape warehouse within the timeframe shown.

Usually ships in 2-3 weeks

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $52.00 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

  • Around 8-20 May using International Courier

Description

"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.

Author Biography:

Robert Perinbanayagam, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, is the author most recently of The Presence of Self, which won the Charles Horton Cooley Award and the Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association.
Release date Australia
February 15th, 2006
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
294
Dimensions
152x229x27
ISBN-13
9781594511080
Product ID
3813288

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Help & options

Filed under...