Games and Sport in Everyday Life

Dialogues and Narratives of the Self

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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 myth-making and catharsis that...