Games of the World: How to Make Them, How to Play Them, How They Came to Be
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Plenary Publications International
- Place
- New York
- Retrieved
- Jul 27, 2018
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Competitive and Addictive Gaming VS Gaming for Play
The compulsive games-player, of course, is another universal phenomenon, particularly where gambling is a part of the game. The compulsive gambler is not made in a day: he descends an increasingly slippery path, eventually falling into a psychological trap from which escape is rare. The Chinese god of gambhng, Tu…
Examples of Games in the Context of Their Civilization
Games hold a mirror to civilization. In the Afghan game of buzkashi, groups of fierce horsemen contend in a no-holds-barred struggle for possession of a beheaded calf. The object is to carry off the slippery carcass, defending it against all challengers, and bring it around the field to the goal. As Jacob Bronowski…
Universality of Games
Just as the ancient and primitive religions of the world show profound similarities in their fertility rites and their sun and moon worship, many games appear to be common property to human beings everywhere. Indeed, the comparison is not at all farfetched: many games now thought to be mere children's pastimes are, in…