Gateways to Culture: Play, Games, Metaphors, and Institutions
In this essay I develop a case for games as a primitive form of culture and an early arrival at our ancestors’ cultural gates. I analyze the modest intellectual prerequisites for game behavior including the use of metaphor, a reliance on constitutive rules, and an ability to understand the logic of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 47-65 |
| Further subjects: | B
Play
games
boredom
evolution
culture
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Volltext (Verlag) |