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Histories of play
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Darian-Smith, Kate and Sleight, S, Histories of play, International Journal of Play, 5, (3) pp. 227-229. ISSN 2159-4937 (2018) [Non Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/21594937.2016.1242551
Abstract
‘Children’, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, ‘will play
anywhere and with anything’ (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has even
been argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity ‘older than culture’ (Huizinga,
1949, p. 1). The historian’s natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factors
of geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gender and social class.
Building on burgeoning scholarship concerning the construction and experience of children’s
play worlds, this special edition of the International Journal of Play offers soundings of the field
and an encouragement to venture still deeper in accounting for change through time, the very
currency of historical enquiry and a potential wide-angle corrective to accounts of play concerned
exclusively with contemporary themes.
Item Details
Item Type: | Non Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Cultural studies |
Research Field: | Cultural studies not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Other culture and society |
Objective Field: | Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Darian-Smith, Kate (Professor Kate Darian-Smith) |
ID Code: | 126550 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Deposited By: | College Office - CALE |
Deposited On: | 2018-06-18 |
Last Modified: | 2020-01-03 |
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