Contributor
Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)
Imprint:New York : Basic Books, 1976.
Description716 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART ONE: THE EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT: A. WHY PLAY EVOLVED IN ANIMALS AND MAN: 1. Nature and uses of immaturity / Jerome S. Bruner (1972) -- 2. The play of animals: play and instinct / Karl Groos (1896) -- 3. The play of man: teasing and love-play / Karl Groos (1901) -- 4. Psychology and phylogeny / Konrad Lorenz (1971) -- 5. Modelling how and why play works / Robert Fagen (1975) -- B. PLAY SIGNALS AND META-COMMUNICATION: 6. A theory of play and fantasy / Gregory Bateson (1955) -- 7. A comparative approach to the phylogeny of laughter and smiling / J.A.R.A.M. van Hooff (1972) -- 8. Ontogenesis of the play face among stumptail monkeys / Suzanne Chevalier-Skolnikoff (1973) -- 9. An ethogram for rhesus monkeys: antithetical contrasts in posture and movement / Donald S. Sade (1973) -- PART TWO: PLAY AND THE WORLD OF OBJECTS AND TOOLS: A. MASTERY PLAY: 10. Chimpanzee locomotor play / Jane van Lawick-Goodall (1968) -- 11. Object-play in cats / Jane Egan (1971) -- 12. Mastery play / Jean Piaget (1951) -- B. PLAY, EXPLORATION AND NOVELTY: 13. Responsiveness to objects in free-ranging Japanese monkeys / Emil W. Menzel, Jr. (1965) -- 14. The reactions of stumptail monkeys to animals and novel objects / M. Bertrand (1969) -- 15. Proto-cultural aspects of chimpanzees' responsiveness to novel objects / Emil W. Menzel, Jr., R.K. Davenport, C.M. Rogers (1972) -- 16. Taboo or toy? / Irwin S. Bernstein (1974) -- 17. Field toys / Alison Uttley (1943) -- 18. Exploration and play in children / Corinne Hutt (1966) -- 19. Predictions from play / Corinne Hutt, Reena Bhavnani (1972) -- C. PLAY, PROBLEM-SOLVING AND TOOL USE: 20. Early tool using in wild chimpanzees / Jane van Lawick-Goodall (1968) -- 21. Spontaneous invention of ladders in a group of young chimpanzees / Emil W. Menzel, Jr. (1972) -- 22. Innate motor action as a basis of learning: manipulative problems in the chimpanzee Paul H. Schiller (1944) -- 23. Play and imitation in dolphins / C.K. Tayler, G.S. Saayman (1973) -- 24. The role of play in the problem-solving of children 3-5 years old / Kathy Sylva, Jerome S. Bruner, Paul Genova (1974)
Note:PART THREE: PLAY AND THE SOCIAL WORLD: A. EARLY INTERACTION PLAY: 25. Mother chimpanzees' play with their infants / Jane van Lawick-Goodall (1968) -- 26. Smiling, cooing and "the game" / J. Watson (1972) -- 27. Peekaboo and the learning of rule structures / Jerome S. Bruner, V. Sherwood (1975) -- 28. Cognitive development through verbalized play: the mother-child home programme / Phyllis Levenstein (1973) -- B. CO-OPERATION AND COMPETITION: 29. Sibling relationships and play among wild chimpanzees / Jane van Lawick-Goodall (1968) -- 30. At play in the fields / Phyllis Dolhinow (1971) -- 31. Rough-and-tumble play in stumptails / M. Bertrand (1969) -- 32. Social play: the choice of playmates observed in the young of the crab-eating macaque / J.-C. Fady (1969) -- 33. Exploration and social play in squirrel monkeys / John D. Baldwin, Janice I. Baldwin (1974) -- 34. An ethological study of chimpanzee play / Caroline Loizos (1969) -- 35. Rough-and-tumble play among nursery school children / N. Blurton-Jones (1967) -- 36. A Tangu game / K.O.L. Burridge (1957) -- C. PLAYING SEX ROLES: 37. Play-mothering: the relations between juvenile females and young infants among free-ranging Vervet monkeys / Jane b. Lancaster (1971) -- 38. Male Barbary macaques "help with the babies" / F.D. Burton (1972) -- 39. Sex role playing in pre-school children / Esther Blank Greif (1974) -- D. THE SPECIAL CASE OF GAMES: 40. Street games: counting-out and chasing / Iona Opie, Peter Opie (1969) -- 41. The rules of the game of marbles / Jean Piaget (1965) -- 42. It's child's play / Rivka K. Eifermann (1972) -- 43. Country games in the 1880s / Flora Thompson (1968) -- 44. Learning through games / James S. Coleman (1967) -- E. CULTURAL INDOCTRINATION THRUGH PLAY: 45. At play in African villages / Eleanor Leacock (1971) -- 46. Social and psychological aspects of education in Taleland / M. Fortes (1938) -- 47. The Americanization of rock-climbing / Mihaly Csikszentmihaly (1964) -- 48. Monkeys without play / Stephen J. Suomi, Harry F. Harlow (1971) -- 49. The effects of protein deficiency on activity, learning, manipulative tasks, curiosity, and social behaviour of monkeys / R.R. Zimmerman, D.A. Strobel, D. Maguire, R.R. Steere, H.L. Horn (1973) -- 50. A comparative study of the spontaneous play activities of normal and mentally defective children / Betty M. Horne, Charlotte C. Philleo (1942) -- 51. Frustration and regression / Roger G. Barker, Tamara Dembo, Kurt Lewin (1941)
Note:PART FOUR: PLAY AND THE WORLD OF SYMBOLS: A. PRETEND PLAY: 52. The imaginary pulltoy / Cathy Hayes (1952) -- 53. Play and its role in the mental development of the child / L.S. Vygotsky (1933) -- 54. Symbolic play / Jean Piaget (1951) -- 55. Some properties of social play / Catherine Garey (1972) -- 56. Freedom and necessity in poetry: my lead mine / W.H. Auden (1970) -- 57. Character games / Simone de Beauvoir (1970) -- 58. Waiting for cats / Dylan Thomas (1953) -- 59. Combat in child art / Sylvia G. Feinberg (1974) -- B. PLAY AND LANGUAGE: 60. The sense of nonsense verse / K. Chukovsky (1963) -- 61. Play with language and meta-linguistic awareness / Courtney B. Cazden (1973) -- 62. Playing with language / Ruth Weir (1962) -- 63. Chimpanzees, alas, do not babble / Cathy Hayes (1952) -- 64. Play, language and human evolution / Peter C. Reynolds (1972) -- C. PLAY AND CREATIVITY: 65. Squares and oblongs / W.H. Auden (1948) -- 66. Surprise, craft and creativity / Jerome S. Bruner (1975) -- 67. Association and bisociation / Arthur Koestler (1967) -- 68. Effects of play on associative fluency in pre-school children / Jeffrey L. Dansky, Irwin W. Silverman (1973) -- D. PLAY AND CIVILIZATION: 69. Deep play: a description of the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz (1972) -- 70. Play and contest as civilizing functions / J. Huizinga (1955) -- 71. Play and actuality / Erik H. Erikson (1972)
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