Games, Strategy & Play · Play, Sport & Culture
Sport as Culture
A topic within Play, Sport & Culture, itself one of 7 topics in that field and part of Games, Strategy & Play.
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- BookHomo LudensJohan Huizinga, 1938
Play precedes culture rather than deriving from it — law, war, poetry and ritual all retain the structure of a game.