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Transactions at Play (Play & Culture Studies): Volume 9
Author(s): Cindy Dell Clark
- Publisher: University Press of America (UK)
- Publication Date: 16 May 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761844856
- ISBN-13: 9780761844853
Book Description
When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play contexts is evident across the nine chapters, encompassing varied continents, age groups, and sorts of players. The play processes of giant pandas, of home-visiting therapists, of Polynesian women, and of autistic kids are included here. The healthy interchange of ideas about play, one of the hallmarks of the Association for the Study of Play, is a process that is cultivated in this new volume.
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About the Author
Cindy Dell Clark studies and teaches on children’s health, play, and cultural participation. She is also an author whose most recent book is In Sickness and In Play: Children Coping with Chronic Illness.
