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ABSTRACT
Social background is a vital element of human play, realizing with the overt and covert transference of social norms as relevant values in public discourse. The interdisciplinary discussion proposed in this article makes it possible to propose a 3D model of ‘sociali persona ludum’ in the concluding part of the study. The model suggests three kinds of domains that together, create each socially dependent person's play: (1) the emergent domain of escapes to the so-called ‘being there’ of play (2) the domain of contents, and (3) the domain of uncertainties. They are functions of different basic features of human play that are analyzed here – the quantity and quality of playing agents, plots of games, and interactions between agents – placed on three Cartesian axes. In addition to the scholarly thesis suggested by this model, one can see it as a possible framework for for different applicative needs.
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Notes
1 Conditions and qualities of such kinds of play are so special that this subject needs a separate philosophical and anthropological study and, thus, it was not analysed in this article.
2 In order not to be distracted by this global theme in the anthropology of human play, it is enough to point out, perhaps, the earliest classification created by an English scholar, Joseph Strutt (Citation1801).
3 This example is borrowed from the story “Fima” by Amos Oz. (Translation to English by N. de Lange; London: Vintage Books, 1994).
4 A clear example of this meta-message is brought by Huizinga describing the experience of a father with his playing son: 'He found his four-year-old son sitting at the front of a row of chairs, playing 'trains'. As he hugged him the boy said: "Don't kiss the engine, Daddy, or the carriages won't think it's real" ' (Huizinga, Citation1938/Citation1949, p. 8). In his notion about fragileness of play Carlson (Citation2013) successfully explains this sensitive duality.
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Felix Lebed
Felix Lebed is Head of the M.Ed. degree program in the Physical Education Department at Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel. Philosophical, psychological, and anthropological questions of human play and competitive sports are a part of his scholarly interests.