Games and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self,New

Games and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self,New

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This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zerothe 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 UrbanaChampaign Games of many kinds have been played in all cultures throughout human history. This wideranging 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 movesnot unlike conversations. Games have wellformed '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.

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