Play among Alaskan Eskimos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4998051 |
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| Authors | Lynn Price Ager (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 252-256 |
| Publication date | 1974-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405847409542518 |
| OpenAlex | W2160862211 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Play is a cultural universal. People in all societies everywhere play-in fact, so do nearly all mammals. What people play and how they play, however, is so cross-culturally variable that there is a real wealth of research yet to be carried out, especially since this subject has been neglected by anthropologists until recently. Defining play seems to have been a problem from the beginning, and even the current literature tends to substitute lists of characteristics for
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| Highly cited | No |
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