Play Culture Studies, Volume 2: Play Contexts Revisited [Paperback]

This volume furthers discourse and understanding about the complex phenomenon we know as play. As with volume one,Diversions and Divergences in Fields of Play, Reifel's purpose is to provide a forum for new thinking about play in humans and animals & across various cultural, social, and activity settings (1998, p. xi). Necessarily, this effort cuts across various disciplines, including biology, anthropology, history, psychology, education, leisure studies, sociology, and any field in which play theories contribute.

Play Contexts Revisitedis comprised of sixteen contributions organized in five sections. Each section flushes out specific types of play, such as Stories of Adult's Play. Comparative contributions focus on play of other cultures and even other species. Volume two ofPlay & Culture Studiesenriches the series with innovative articles about the many aspects and examples of play.

STUART REIFEL is Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches in the early childhood education program in the College of Education./e He has studied children's play in schools and homes for the past twenty years, and specializes in the meanings of children's play in their developmental contexts. He served as President for The Association for the Study of Play.

Stories of Adult's Play Play and Inventiveness: Revisiting Erikson's View on Einstein's Playfulness, Cosby Steele Rogers and Dorothy Justus Sluss
Playing with the Sacrificial Child: Brian Sutton-Smith's Boys' Story Our Street. Kevin J. Sheehan
Toying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment, Judith Lynne Hanna
Children's Play Contexts and Rules Kindergarten and College Students' Views of Play and Work at Home and at School, Robyn M. Holmes
Development Reflected in Chase Games, Loretta J. Clarke
Rules in Children's Games and Play, Carrie Freie
The Canvas of Play: A Study of Children's Play Behaviors While Drawing, Theresa H. Escobedo
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