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    Homo Ludens is a book originally published in Dutch in 1938 by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the...
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  • the family Hesperiidae Homo Ludens (book) ("Man the Player", alternatively "Playing Man"), a book written in 1938 Musa ludens, a chamber music group from...
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  • However the concept of Homo economicus puts aside all other aspects of human nature (such as Homo faber, Homo loquens, Homo ludens, Homo reciprocans, and so...
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  • anthropological discussions, Homo faber, as the "working man", is confronted with Homo ludens, the "playing man", who is concerned with amusements, humor, and leisure...
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  • the bourgeois metropolis below and would be populated by homo ludens--man at play. (Homo Ludens is the title of a book by the great Dutch historian Johan...
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    published posthumously) Homo Ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur (1938), translated as Homo Ludens, a study of the play element...
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    In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have...
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  • the "new man". Ancient Rome portal New men New Man (utopian concept) Homo Ludens Homo Sovieticus Nouveau riche Iliad – the first example of the common man...
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  • has been attributed to Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872–1945). In Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, Huizinga wrote: All play moves...
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  • Pignatari, and later, Gunther Sachs, his acolyte, who termed himself a homo ludens. Other people who adopted the playboy lifestyle included Alfonso de Portago...
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    mental skill by the political and military elite. In his 1938 book, Homo Ludens, Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argued that games were a primary...
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    more general way was Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens or Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. Homo Ludens discusses the importance of the element...
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  • 2006). "The Playful and the Serious: An approximation to Huizinga's Homo Ludens". Game Studies. 6 (1). Variation in Seriousness of Transgressions and...
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    Humanities Research. 120: 276–281. Vogel, Hans Ulrich (January 2012). "Homo ludens sinensis: Kickball in China from the 7th to the 16th Centuries". Vivienne...
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    conjunction with Roman religious festivals. Lusus Troiae, the Troy Game Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga book on the importance of play in culture and society...
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    play varies. The seminal text in the field of play studies is the book Homo Ludens first published in 1944 with several subsequent editions, in which Johan...
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    Johan Huizinga, whose 1938 Homo Ludens created a paradigm for understanding the functions of games and play across culture. Luden's paradigm would place the...
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  • it nevertheless sets the stage for Johan Huizinga's classical study, Homo Ludens. Games have long been employed as a means of education. Using the ancient...
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    by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga in the book Homo Ludens ("Man the Player" or "Playing Man"). Huizinga's work is considered an...
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    developed by the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga in his book Homo Ludens (1938). Huizinga had discussed the importance of play as an element of...
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  • with several semi-jocular allusions such as the popular Latin phrase Homo Ludens "the Playing Man" and an anagram of the Russian word nelyudi "inhuman...
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    Retrieved 2014-10-07. Hamari, Juho (2013). "Transforming Homo Economicus into Homo Ludens: A Field Experiment on Gamification in a Utilitarian Peer-To-Peer...
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    "rules of the game." This aspect was first explored by Johan Huizinga (in Homo Ludens, 1938) and Roger Caillois (in Man, Play and Games, 1958). Caillois, for...
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  • a human personality". Mumford also cites Johan Huizinga's notion of Homo ludens, insofar as "play, rather than work, was the formative element in human...
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    York: W. W. Norton. p. 132. ISBN 0-393-00292-6. Gelb, L.J. (1975). "Homo Ludens in Early Mesopotamia". Studia Orientalia. 46: 43–76 – via North-Holland...
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  • Barnard's The Functions of the Executive is published. Johann Huizinga's Homo Ludens is published. Serafin N. Macaraig's An Introduction to Sociology is published...
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    University of California Press, 1948), pp. 13–17. See also J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens: Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur (Haarlem, 1940)...
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  • Magic Circle - The authors borrow the term magic circle from the book Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga, using it to describe the space within which a game...
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  • JSTOR 3269907. Gill, Sam (1998). "No Place to Stand: Jonathan Z. Smith as Homo Ludens, The Academic Study of Religion Sub Specie Ludi". Journal of the American...
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    Serval, Fred. "Jack Radey part 1 – The Origins of People's War Games". Homo Ludens. Fred Serval. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved 11...
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