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PLAY, GAMES, AND SPORTS - a bibliography

by Don L. F. Nilsen
English Department
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302

Humor Studies

Abrams, B. W., and N. A. Kauffman. Toys for Early Childhood Development: Selection Guidelines for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers. West Nyak, NY: The Center for Applied Research in Education, 1990.

Adams, Charles S. "The Edea of the Game: Baseball, Robert Coover, and the Imaginative Act." Play and Culture 3.1 (February, 1990): 44-50.

Adams, Patch. "Nasal Diplomacy: A Funny Route to Peace." In Context 13 (1986): 32-34.

Adelman, Clem. "What Will I Become? Play Helps with the Answer." Play and Culture 3.3 (August, 1990): 193-205.

Adler, Bill. Baseball Wit. NY: Crown Publishers, 1986.

Ager, L. P. "The Reflection of Cultural Values in Eskimo Children's Games." The Anthropologgical Study of Play: Problems and Prospects. Ed. D. F. Lancy, and B. A. Tindall. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1976. 79-85.

Aldis, Owen. Play Fighting. New York: Academic Press, 1975.

Alford, K. F. "The Structure of Joking Relationships in American Society." Play as Context Ed. A. T. Cheska. West Point, NY: Leisure Press, 268-278.

Almquist, B. "Age and Gender Differences in Children's Christmas Requests." Play and Culture 2.1 (1989): 2-19.

Ariel, Shlomo. Strategic Family Play Therapy. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1992.

Arratia, Maria-InŽs. "Bullfights: Art, Sport, Ritual." Play and Culture 1.4 (November, 1988): 282-290.

Auerbach, Stevanne. Dr. Toy's Smart Play: How to Raise a Child with a High P. Q. (Play Quotient. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press/Griffin Edition, 1998.

Auerbach, Stevanne. The Toy Chest: A Sourcebook. New York, NY: Lyle Stuart, 1986.

Auerbach, Stevanne. Toys for a Lifetime Enhancing Childhood Through Play. New York, NY: Universe/Rizzoli Publishing/FAO Schwarz, 1994.

Aycock, Alan. "Hearing Voices: Bakhtin and the Study of Play." The Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.1 (1993): 76-86.

Aycock, D. Alan. "Finite Reason: A Construction of Desperate Play." Play and Culture 5.2 (May, 1992): 182-208.

Aycock, D. Alan. "'Gens Una Sumus': Play as Metaculture." Play and Culture 1.2 (May, 1988): 124-37.

Aycock, D. Alan. "Play without Players, Players without Play: The World Computer Chess Championship." Play and Culture 3.2 (May, 1990): 133-45.

Aycock, D. Alan. "Response to Handelman's 'Passages to Play: Paradox and Process.'" Play and Culture 5.1 (February, 1992): 29-31.

Aycock, D. Alan. "The Confessions of the Flesh: Disciplinary Gaze in Casual Bodybuilding." Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 338-357.

Aycock, D. Alan. "Three Assumptions in Search of an Author: Some Textual Problems in the Study of Play." Play and Culture 5.3 (1992): 264-279.

Barkley, Charles. Outrageous. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Barkley, Charles. SIR CHARLES: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley. Richmond, VA: Time Warner Books, 1994.

Barnett, Lynn A. "Characterizing Playfulness: Correlates with Individual Attributes and Personality Traits." Play and Culture 4.4 (1991): 371-393.

Barnett, Lynn A. "The Playful Child: Measurement of a Disposition to Play." Play and Culture 4.1 (February, 1991): 51-74.

Bateson, Gregory. "A Theory of Play and Fantasy." Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballentine, 1955, 177-193.

Bateson, Gregory. "Play and Paradigm." Play and Culture 1.1 (February, 1988): 20-27.

Bauer, Guenther G. "Play and Research--A Contradiction?" Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.3 (1993): 179-188.

Bauer, Guenther. Homo Ludens: Der Spielende Mensch. 2 Volumes. Salzburg: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1991.

Bell, J. Bowyer. To Play the Game: An Analysis of Sports. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1987.

Beran, J. A. "Attitudes Toward Play among Filipino Children of Negroes, Oriental, Philippines." Studies in the Anthropology of Play: Papers in Memory of B. Allen Tindall Ed. P. Stevens. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 81-87.

Beresin, A. R. "Toy War Games and the Illusion of Two-Sided Rhetoric." Play and Culture 2.3 (1989): 218-224.

Berk, L. E. "Vygotsky's Theory: The Importance of Make-Believe Play." Young Children 50.1 (1994): 30-39.

Blanchard, Kendall. "Notes on Notes: Geertz's Cockfight and the Academic Legitimacy of Sport" Play and Culture 5.3 (1992): 258-263.

Blanchard, Kendall. "Sport, Leisure, and Identity: Reinventing Lao Culture in Middle Tennessee." Play and Culture 4.2 (May, 1991): 169-184.

Blatner, Adam, and Allee Blatner. The Art of Play: An Adult's Guide to Reclaiming Imagination and Spontaneity. New York: Human Sciences, 1988.

Bloom, John. "'I Don't Know How Fame Feels': Cultural Tensions within Baseball Fantasies at the Minnesota Twins Open Tryout Camp." Play and Culture 3.1 (February, 1990): 51-63.

Bock, John, and Sara E. Johnson. "Play and Subsistence Ecology among the Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana." in "New Evolutionary Perspectives on Play," a special issue of Human Nature 15.1 (2004): To Appear.

Bock, John, ed. "New Evolutionary Perspectives on Play," a special issue of Human Nature 15.1 (2004): To Appear.

Bogue, Ronald, and Mihai I. Spariosu, eds. The Play of the Self. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Bolin, Anne. "Flex Appeal, Food, and Fat: Competitive Bodybuilding, Gender, and Diet." Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 378-400.

Boreck&yacute, Vladim’r. Imaginace, Hra a Komika (Imagination, Play and the Comic). Prague, Czechoslovakia: Triton, 2005

Borecký, Vladim’r. "Spatial Analogies of Ego-Development in Theory and Imaginative Play." Estetika 30. 1-2 (1993): 53-58

Botvin, G. J. "A Proppian Approach to the Ananysis of Children's Fantasy Narratives." Studies in The Anthropology of Play: Papers in Memory of B. Allen Tindall. Ed. P. Stevens. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1977. 122-132.

Boyatzis, C. J. "The Effects of Traditional Playground Equipment on Preschool Children's Dyadic Play Interaction." Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning Ed. G. A. Fine. Chicago, IL: Human Kinetics, 1987. 101-110.

Boyd, B. "Laughter and Literature: A Play Theory of Humor." Philosophy and Literature 28.1 (2004): 1-22.

Bruner, J. S., A. Jolly, and K. Sylva, eds. Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1976.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Comparison Matters: Curiosity, Bears, Surplus Energy, and Why Reptiles Don't Play." Behavioral land Brain Sciences 5 (1982): 159-160.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Conceptions of Play and the Evolution of Animal Minds." Evolution and Cognition 5 (1999): 115-123.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "On the Origins of Play." Play in Animals and Humans. Ed. P. K. Smith. London, England: Basil Blackwell, 1984, 5-41.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Play." Comparative Psychology: A Handbook. Eds. G. Greenberg and M. Haraway. New York, NY: Garland Press, 1998, 757-767.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "Play: Attributes and Neural Substates." Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology Volume 13. Ed. E. M. Blass. New York, NY: In Press.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "The Evolutionary Origins of Play Revisited: Lessons from Turtles." Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative, and Ecological Perspectives. Eds. M. Bekoff, and J. A. Byers. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 1-26.

Burghardt, Gordon M. "The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits." Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2005.

Burghardt, Gordon M., B. Ward, and R. Rosccoe. "Problem of Reptile Play: Environmental Enrichment and Play Behavior in a Captive Nile Soft-Shelled Turtle Trionyx Triunguis." Zoo Biology 15 (1996): 223-238.

Burriss, K. G., and B. F. Boyd. Outdoor Learning and Play, Ages 8-12. Baltimore, MD: Association for Childhood Education International, 2005.

Carlson, L. "Well" in Dialogue Games. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Press, 1984.

Carvalho, A. M. A., P. K. Smith, T. Hunter, and A. Costabile. "Playground Activities for Boys and Girls: Developmental and Cultural Trends in Children's Perceptions of Gender Differences." Play and Culture 3.4 (1990): 343-347.

Catherall, Thomas S. "Playing with Electric Trains in School Classrooms." Play and Culture 2.2 (May, 1989): 137-41.

Cekaite, Asta, and Karin Aronsson. ÒRepetition and Joking in ChildrenÕs Second Language Conversations: Playful Recyclings in an Immersion Classroom.Ó Discourse Studies 6.3 (2004): 373-392.

Cherfas, J. "It's Only a Game." Not Work Alone: A Cross-Cultural View of Activities Superfluous to Survival. Eds. J. Cherfas, R. Lewin. London, England: Temple Smith 1980.

Cheska, Alyce Taylor, ed. Play as Context. West Point, NY: Leisure Press, 1981.

Chick, Garry, and Jon Donlon. "Going Out on a Limn: Geertz's 'Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight' and the Anthropological Study of Play." Play and Culture 5.3 (1992): 233-245.

Chick, Garry. "Acculturation and Community Recreation in Rural Mexico." Play and Culture 4.2 (May, 1991): 185-192.

Chick, Garry. "On the Categorization of Games." Play and Culture 2.4 (November, 1989): 283-92.

Chick, Garry. "Play as Science and the Science of Play: TASP Presidential Address, 1993." Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.2 (1993): 89-101.

Ching, Marvin K. L. "Games and Play: Pervasive Metaphors in American Life." Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 8.1 (1993): 43-66.

Christie, James F. "A Quantitative Survey of Sutton-Smith's Impact on the Social Science Literature." Play and Culture 4.2 (May, 1991): 139-143.

Christie, James F. ÒDramatic Play: A Context for Meaningful Engagements.Ó The Reading Teacher 43 (1990): 545.

Christie, James F. ÒLiteracy Play Interventions: A Review of Empirical Research.Ó Advances in Early Education and Day Care, Volume 6. Ed. Stuart Reifel. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1994, 3-24.

Christie, James F. ÒPlay and Story Comprehension: A Critique of Recent Training Research.Ó Journal of Research and Development in Education 21 (19887): 36-43.

Christie, James F. ÒPlay: A Medium for Emergent Literacy Development.Ó Play from Birth to Twelve: Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings. Eds. Doris Fromberg, and Doris Be??, New York, NY: Garland, 1998, 50-55.

Christie, James F. Play, and Early Literacy Development. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Christie, James F. Play, Development, and Early Education New York, NY: Allyn and Bacon, 2004.

Christie, James F., and Billie Enz. ÒProviding Resources for Play.Ó Childhood Education 69 (1993): 291-292.

Christie, James F., and Peter Johnsen. "The Constraints of Settings on Children's Play." Play and Culture 2.4 (November, 1989): 317-327.

Christie, James F., and Peter Johnsen. ÒReconceptualizing Construltive Play: A Review of the Empirical Literature.Ó Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 33 (1987): 439-452.

Christie, James F., and Peter Johnsen. ÒThe Role of Play in Social-Intellectual Development.Ó Review of Educational Research 53 (1983): 93-115.

Christie, James F., and Sandra Stone. ÒCollaborative Literacy Activity iln Print-Enriched Play Centers: Exploring the `ZoneÕ in Same-Age and Multi-Age Groupings.Ó Journal of Literacy Research. 31 (1999): 109-131.

Collins, Christopher. The Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia. University Park, PA: Penn State Univ Press, 1991.

Connor, Kathleen. "Aggression: Is It in the Eye of the Beholder?" Play and Culture 2.3 (August, 1989): 213-217.

Crouser, Dick. It's Unlucky to Be Behind at the End of the Game. NY: William Morrow, 1983.

Crum, Thomas. "Learning from the Experts: The Playful Wisdom of Children." In Context 13 (Spring, 1986): 17-19.

Cunningham, Bruce, and Janet Wiegel. "Preschool Work and Play Activities: Child and Teacher Perspectives." Play and Culture 5.1 (February, 1992): 92-99.

Daemmrich, Ingrid G. "Last Chapter: `Humorous Games with Paradise.'" Enigmatic Bliss: The Paradise Motif in Literature. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1997.

Daemmrich, Ingrid G. ÒFrom Eternal Bliss to Instant Fun: Literary Game-Playing with Paradise as Self-Promotion.Ó HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 13.2 (2000): 109-140.

Damian, Jacqueline. Games March 1984, March 1985, October 1985

Danet, Brenda, and Tamar Katriel. "No Two Alike: Play and Aesthetics in Collecting." Play and Culture 2.3 (August, 1989): 253-77.

Daniels, Dayna B. "Gender (Body) Verification (Building)." Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 370-377.

Davidson, Sol M. "Games People Play in the Comic Strips." International Journal of Comic Art7.1 (2005): 513-529.

De Koven, Bernie. Junkyard Sports. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2005.

De Koven, Bernie. The Well-Played Game: A Playful Path to Wholemess. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2002.

De Shane, Nina. "Breakdance: Young Warriors in the Inner City." Play and Culture 1.4 (November, 1988): 258-66.

Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies. Eds. Robert Con Davis, and Ronald Schleifer. New York: Longman, 1989, 229-248; also in Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Dickson, Paul. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. New York: Avon, 1989.

Dimidjian, V. J. ed. Play's Place in Public Education for Young Children. Washington, DC: National Education Association, 1992.

Dixon, Wallace E., and Cecilia Shore. "Language Style Dimensions and Symbolic Play." Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.4 (1993): 259-270.

Dolgin, K. G. "The Importance of Playing Alone: Differences in Manipulative Play under Social and Solitary Conditions." Play as Context Ed. A. T. Cheska. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1979. 238-247.

Donlon, Jon. "Fighting Cocks, Feathered Warriors, and Little Heroes." Play and Culture 3.4 (November, 1990): 273-86.

Dove, Pagito. Lunchtime Enlightenment: Meditations to Transform Your Life NOW--at Work, at Home, at Play. New York, NY: Penguin, 2001.

Downes, D. M. et. al. Gambling, Work and Leisure: A Study across Three Areas. London, England: Routledge and Kegan, 1976.

Doyle, P. H. "The Differential Effects of Multiple and Single Niche Play Activities on Interpersonal Relations among Preschoolers." The Anthropological Study of jPlay: Problems and Prospects. Eds. D. F. Lancy, and B. A. Tindall. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1976. 189-197.

Duncan, Margaret Carlisle. "A Heartfelt Thank You and a Hope for the Future." Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 458-459.

Duncan, Margaret Carlisle. "Introduction to a Retrospective on Clifford Geertz's 'Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." Play and Culture 5.3 (1992): 221-223.

Duncan, Margaret Carlisle. "Television Portrayals of Children's Play and Sport." Play and Culture 2.3 (1989): 235-252.

Dundes, Alan. The Cockfight: A Casebook. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Einon, D. "The Purpose of Play." Not Work Alone: A Cross-Cultural View of Activities Superfluous to Survival. Eds. J. Cherfas, and R. Lewin. London, England: Temple Smith, 1980.

Eisen, G. "Coping in Adversity: Children's Play in the Holocaust." Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning Ed. G. A. Fine. Chicago, IL: Human Kinetics, 1987. 129-141.

Enz, Bkillie, and James F. Christie. ÒTeacher Play Interaction Styles: Effects on Play Behavior and Relationships with Teacher Training and Experience.Ó International Journal of Early Childhood Education 2 (1997): 55-69.

Escobedo, Teresa H., "Play in a New Medium: Children's Talk and Graphics at Computers." Play and Culture 5.2 (May, 1992): 120-140.

Evans, John. "The Teacher Role in Playground Supervision." Play and Culture. 3.3 (August, 1990): 219-34.

Fagen, Robert. "Play, Fun, and Communication of Well-Being." Play and Culture 5.1 (February, 1992): 40-58.

Farrer, C. "Contesting." Play as Context. Ed. A. T. Cheska. West Point, NY: Leisure Press, 1981, 195-208.

Fernald, Anne, and Daniela O'Neill. "Peekaboo across Cultures: How Mothers and Infants Play with Voices." Play and Culture. Eds. K. McDonald, and A. D. Pellegrini. Buffalo, NY: SUNY Press, 1993.

Fine, Gary Alan. "Good Children and Dirty Play." Play and Culture 1.1 (February, 1988): 43-56.

Fine, Gary Alan. "Justifying Fun: Why We Do Not Teach Exotic Dance in High School." Play and Culture 4.2 (May, 1991): 85-86.

Fine, Gary Alan. "The Depths of Deep Play: The Rhetoric and Resources of Morally Controversial Leisure." Play and Culture 5.3 (1992): 246-251.

Fine, Gary Alan. Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning. Chicago, IL: Human Kinetics, 1987.

Fine, Gary Alan. Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1983.

Fisher, Edward P. "The Impact of Play on Development: A Meta-Analysis." Play and Culture 5.2 (May, 1992): 159-181.

Fromberg, Doris, and Doris Be??, eds. Play from Birth to Twelve: Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings. Eds. Doris Fromberg, and Doris Be??, New York, NY: Garland, 1998.

Frommer, Harvey. Sports Roots: The Story behind Nicknames, Expressions, and Terms Born in the World of Sports. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1979.

Fuller, Linda A. "The Baseball Movie Genre: At Bat or Struck Out?" Play and Culture 3.1 (February, 1990): 64-74.

Garagiola, Joe. Baseball Is a Funny Game. New York, NY: Lippincott, 1960.

Gardner, Martin. Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Garvey, Catherine. "The Modals of Necessity and Obligation in Children's Pretend Play." Play and Culture. 3.3 (August, 1990): 206-19.

Garvey, Catherine. Play. London, England: Fontana, 1977.

Gellerman, R. "Play, Anxiety, and Imitation: Development of Self-Consciousness in the Second Year of Life." Play as Context. Ed. A. T. Cheska. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1979. 219-237.

Gerstmyer, John S. "A Bedtime Story: An Analysis of a 32-Month-Old's Play Performance." Play and Culture 2.3 (August, 1989): 203-212.

Gill, E., and A. A. Drewes. Cultural Issues in Play Therapy. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 2005.

Gillett, James, and Philip G. White. "Male Bodybuilding and the Reassertion of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critical Feminist Perspective." Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 358-369.

Gilman, Robert, ed. Play and Humor Special issue of In Context 13 (1986).

Gilman, Robert. "Breaking the Rules." In Context 13 (1986): 5-7.

Goelman, Hillel, and Ellen Vineberg Jacobs, eds. Children's Play in Child Care Settings. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.

GšncŸ, A., and E. L. Klein, eds. Children in Play, Story, and School.. New York, NY: Guilford, 2001.

Gougoulis, Cleo. "The `Rules' of Mockery: Folk Humour and Symbolic Inversion in Greek Children's Pretend Play." Acta Ethnografica Hungarica 44.1-2 (2000): 199-208.

Gowan, J. W. "The Early Development of Symbolic Play." Young Children 50.3 (1995): 75-84.

Granskog, Jane. "Tri-ing Together: An Exploratory Analysis of the Social Networks of Female and Male Triathletes." Play and Culture 5.1 (February, 1992): 76-91.

Groos, Karl. The Play of Animals. New York, NY: D. Appleton, 1898.

Groos, Karl. The Play of Man. London, England: William Heinemann, 1901.

Grover, Kathryn, ed. Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. 1992.

Gruner, Charles R. The Game of Humor: A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1997.

Guerra, Margaret. "Verbal Swaggering: Lulnchtime Grotesqueries in the Child Care Center." Play and Culture 2.3 (August, 1989): 197-202.

Guthrie, Sharon R., and Shirley Castelnuovo. "Elite Women Bodybuilders: Models of Resistance or Compliance?" Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 401-408.

Handelman, Don. "Parameters of Play." Play and Culture 5.1 (1992): 35-39.

Handelman, Don. "Passages to Play: Paradox and Process." Play and Culture 5.1 (February, 1992): 1-19.

Handelman, Don. "Play and Ritual: Complementary Frames of Meta-Communication." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 185-92.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. ÒCreativity in Ubakala, Dallas Youth, and Exotic Dance.Ó Creativity in Performance. Eds. R. Keith Sawyer. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pubalishing Corporation, 1997, 141-167.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. ÒDance and WomenÕs Protest in Nigeria and the United States.Ó Women and Social Protest. Eds. Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990, 333-345.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. ÒToying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment.Ó Play and Culture Studies 2 (1999): Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 37-55.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. Partnering Dance and Education: Intelligent Moves for Changing Times. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1999.

Hanna, Judith Lynne. To Dance is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication. Revised Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Hart, Craig H. Ed. Children on Playgrounds: Research Perspectives and Applications. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Hayes, Bernard, and David F. Lancy. ÒComputer Adventure Games and the Development of Information Processing Skills.Ó Reading Research in 1984:  Comprehension Computers Communication. Ed. George H. McNinch, Carrollton, GA: Thomason, 1985.

Heidemann, S., and D. Hewitt. Pathways to Play: Developing Skills in Young Children. Minneapolis, MN: Redleaf Press, 1992.

Heider, K. G. "From Javanese to Dani: The Translation of a Game." Studies in the Anthropology of Play: Papers in Memory of B. Allen Tindall. Ed. P. Stevens. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1977. 72-80.

Herron, R. E., and Brian Sutton-Smith. Child's Play. Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger, 1971.

Hilliard, Dan C. "Finishers, Competitors, and Pros: A Description and Speculative Interpretation of the Triathlon Scene." Play and Culture 1.4 (November, 1988): 300-313.

Holloway, Richard L "Doc," and Warren L. "Magic" Holleman. "Academic America: A 'Noonball' Perspective." Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.2 (1993): 165-170.

Holmes, Robyn M. "Categories of Play: A Kindergartner's View." Play and Culture 4.1 (February, 1991): 43-50.

Holmes, Robyn M. "Play During Snacktime." Play and Culture 5.3 (1992): 295-304.

Horan, Robert. "Sutton-Smith and His Cocursors." Play and Culture 4.3 (August 1991): 195-200.

Hughes, Linda A. "A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Children's Gaming." Play and Culture 4.3 (August 1991): 284-300.

Hughes, Linda A. "Foursquare: A Glossary and 'Native' Taxonomy of Game Rules." Play and Culture 2.2 (May, 1989): 103-36.

Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1950.

Ignicio, A. A. "The Influence of Gender-Role Perception on Activity Preferences of Children." Play and Culture 3.4 (1990): 302-310.

Inglis, Mary. "The Game: An Insightful Tool for Personal Awareness." In Context 13 (Spring, 1986): 45-48.

Jackson, Steven J. "Power Plays at Work: From Contested Terrain to the Manufacture of Consent." Journal of Play Theory and Research 1.2 (1993): 153-164.

Jackson, Steven J. "Toward an Investment Theory of Sport Spectatorship." Play and Culture 1.4 (November, 1988): 314-21.

Johnson, E. P. "Searching for the Social and Cognitive Outcomes of Children's Play: A Selective Second Look." Play and Culture 4.3 (August 1991): 201-213.

Johnson, James E., James F. Christie, and F. Wardle. Play, Development, and Early Education. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005.

Johnson, James E., James F. Christie, and Thomas D. Yawkey. Play and Early Childhood Development New York, NY: Longman, 1999.

Johnson, Sara E., and John Bock. "Trade-Offs in Skill Acquisition and Time Allocation among Juvenile Chacma Baboons." in "New Evolutionary Perspectives on Play," a special issue of Human Nature 15.1 (2004): To Appear.

Kaplan, Jim. "Universal Baseball Madness: The Effect of Rotisserie Play on Psyche and Social Life." Play and Culture 3.1 (February, 1990): 11-17.

Katovich, Michael A. "Humor in Baseball: Functions and Dysfunctions." Journal of American Culture 16.2 (1993): 7-16.

Katriel, Tamar. "Playing with Fire." Play and Culture 1.3 (August, 1988): 205-215.

Kendrick, Maureen. Converging Worlds: Play, Literacy and Culture in Early Childhood. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2003.

Khoury-Murphy, Milady, and Michael Dean Murphy. "Southern (Bar)Belles: The Cultural Problematics of Implementing a Weight Training Program among Older Southern Women" Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 409-419.

King, Nancy R. "Researching Play in Schools." Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning Ed. G. A. Fine. Chicago, IL: Human Kinetics. 85-100.

King, Nancy R. "See Baby Play: Play as Depicted in Elementary School Readers, 1900-1950." Play and Culture 4.2 (May, 1991): 100-107.

Klein, Alan M. "Man Makes Himself: Alienation and SelfpObjectification in Bodybuilding." Play and Culture 5.4 (1992): 326-337.

Klein, Alan M. Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction. New York, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Kline, Stephen, and Debra Penticost. "The Characterization of Play: Marketing Children's Toys." Play and Culture. 3.3 (August, 1990): 235-55.

Klugman, E. ed. Play, Policy, nad Practice. Minneapolis, MN: Redleaf Press, 1995.

Klugman, E., and S. Smilansky, eds. Children's Play and Learning: Perspectives and Policy Implications. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 1990.

Kramer, M., and Gordon M. Burghardt. "Precocious Courtship and Play in Emydid Turtles." Ethology 104 (1998): 38-56.

Krane, Gary. Simple Fun for Busy People. Van Nuys, CA: Ideal Communications, 1999.

Kuenz, Jane, Karen Klugman, Shelton Waldrep, and Susan Willis. Inside the Mouse--Work and Play at Disney World--The Project on Disney. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Lancy, David F. "The Autotelic Learning Environment Revisited: An Exploratory Study." Play and Culture 4.2 (May, 1991): 124-128.

Lancy, David F. "The Play Behavior of Kpelle Children during Rapid Cultural Change." The Anthropological Study of Play: Problems and Prospects. Eds. D. F. Lancy, and B. A. Tindall. New York, NY: Leisure Press, 1976. 72-78.

Lancy, David F. ÒThe Gingerbread Man Meets CD-Rom.Ó Utah English Journal 21 (1993): 17-21.

Lancy, David F. Playing on the Mother-Ground: Cultural Routines for ChildrenÕs Development. New York, NY: Guilford, 1996.

Lancy, David F., and B. Allan Tindall, eds. The Study of Play: Problems and Prospects. West Point, NY: Leisure Press, 1977.

Lancy, David F., and Bernard L. Hayes. ÒInteractive Fiction and the Reluctant Reader.Ó English Journal. November, 1988, 42-46.

Lancy, David F., and Bernard L. Hayes. ÒInteractive Fiction and the Reluctant Reader.Ó English Journal. November, 1988, 42-46.

Larson, Karen Ann. "'Keep up the Chatter': Ritual Communication in American Softball." Play and Culture 1.2 (May, 1988): 105-23.

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