play, leisure and anthropology. play: a cultural activity that is framed or highlighted from other...
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Play, leisure and anthropology
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Play: a cultural activity that is framed or highlighted from
other activities of ordinary life
--Separate from other activities
--Limited
--Structured
--With specific rules
--Element of tension and change
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Metacommunication
Communication about communication
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Play:Two kinds of Metacommunication
• Framing:
• --sense of separation
• --out of ordinary life
• Reflexivity:
• --(conscious of being conscious)
• --aware of our actions
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The Functions of Play
• Exercise
• Rehearsal for life
• Microcosm of culture
• Spiritual quest
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What do we learn by studying play and leisure activities?
• Cultural relations
• Intercultural relations
• Social status
• Individual and group goals
• Cultural and social identity
• Social patterns
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Leisure and play: between pleasure and pain
• Blood sports• --boxing, extreme fights• What is in it for the player?• --Money? Prestige?• Why do spectators like to watch bloody sports?• Cultural identity? • --Personal satisfaction?
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Leisure travel
• From core to peripheral nations• Marketing of exotic others and exotic lands• Selling fantasies, desires• Pristine way of life• Authentic cultures• Transformation of cultural forms influenced by
tourism
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Change in Expressive culture is universal
• Influences go both ways
• --globalization of mass media
• --african music and art
• Latin dance and Music
• Asian performances
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Cultural Syncretism:
when a cultural activity is influenced by or appropriated into the cultural
fabric of another culture
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Conclusion Expressive culture comprises art, leisure
activities and play
Anthropologists look at expressive culture in order to learn about social and cultural
interactions
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Discussion question
1. Do you think that the introduction of sports in the colonies, in order to suppress tribal warfare,
was a good thing or just another form of colonialism?
2. Could you think of an example of play that reinforces or is a microcosm of cultural values in
a region of Canada or in another culture?
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Play: a cultural activity that is framed or highlighted from
other activities of ordinary life.