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Games, being a characteristic human activity strongly determined by custom and the frequent subjects of folklore, have been the subject of anthropological investigations. Game - Classes of games. While many different subdivisions have been proposed, anthropologists classify games under three major headings, and have drawn some conclusions as to the social bases that each sort of game requires. They divide games broadly into: Games of pure skill, such as hopscotch and target shooting; Games of pure strategy, such as checkers, go, or tic-tac-toe; Games of chance ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Wealth

Wealth is an abundance of items of economic value, or the state of controlling or possessing such items, and encompasses money, real estate and personal property. In many countries wealth is also measured by reference to access to essential services such as health care, or the possession of crops and livestock. An individual who is wealthy or rich is someone who has accumulated substantial wealth relative t ...

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Wealth - Other concepts of wealth

Wealth - The creation of wealth

Wealth - The limits to wealth creation

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Descent

Descent may refer to: Kinship and descent in anthropology Common descent in biology Descent (category theory) in mathematics The Descent, a horror film Descent (computer game), a computer game released by Parallax Software in the mid-1990s Descent (aircraft), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight "Descent" (TNG episode), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation The distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Ley line

Ley lines are alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient megaliths. Their existence was first suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book The Old Straight Track first brought the phenomenon to the attention of the wider public. The existence of these apparently remarkable alignments between sites is easily demonstrated. However, the causes of these alignments are disputed. There are three major schools of thought: Anthropological: According ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - 19th century

The 19th century lasted from 1801 to 1900 in the Gregorian calendar (using the Common Era system of year numbering). Historians sometimes define a "Nineteenth Century" historical era stretching from 1815 (The Congress of Vienna) to 1914 (The outbreak of the First World War); alternatively, Eric Hobsbawm defined the "Long Nineteenth Century" as spanning the years 1789 to 1914. During this century, the Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires began to crumble and the Holy Roman and Mughal empires ceased. Following t ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Race

A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations. The most widely used racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features), genes, and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and time and are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and hence identity politics. Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which a number of finite lists of essential ch ...

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Race - Historical origins of race

Race - 20th- and 21st-century debates over race

Race - The origins patterns and physical manifestations of human genetic variation

Race - Social interpretation of physical variation

Race - Case studies in the social construction of race

Race - Practical uses of race

Race - Footnotes

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Mana

Mana is a traditional term and a concept among the speakers of Oceanic languages, including Melanesians, Polynesians and Māori. It is an impersonal force or quality said to reside in people, animals and inanimate objects which provide an observer with a sense of wonder or respect. In anthropological discourse, mana as a generalized concept has attained a significant amount of interest; often understood as the precursor to genuine religion. It has commonly been interpreted as "the stuff of which magic is formed," although this vie ...

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Mana - Mana in Oceanic culture

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - The Golden Bough

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), first published in 1890. It was aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Bulfinch's Age of Fable. It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological perspective. While the final worth of its contribution to anthropology will be newly e ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Ethnography

Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphein = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography is a holistic research method founded in the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other. The genre has both formal and historical connections to travel writing and colonial office reports. Several academic traditions, in particular the constructivist and relativist paradigms, claim ethnography as a ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Fetishism

A fetish (from French fétiche; from Portuguese feitiço; from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is a natural object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular an object created by people that has power over people. Fetishism - History. The concept was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1757, while comparing West African religion to the magical aspects of Ancient Egyptian religion. He and other 18th century scholars used the concept to apply evolution ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - List of academic disciplines

This is a list of academic disciplines (and academic fields). An academic discipline is a branch of knowledge which is formally taught, either at the university, or via some other such method. Functionally, disciplines are usually defined and recognised by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies to which their practitioners belong. Each discipline usually has several sub-disciplines or branch ...

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List of academic disciplines - Mathematics and computer science

List of academic disciplines - Social sciences

List of academic disciplines - Humanities and arts

List of academic disciplines - Professions / Applied sciences

Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Violence

Violence refers to acts —typically connotative with aggressive and criminal behaviour —which intend to cause or is causing of injury to persons, animals, or (in limited cases) property. Harm to non-human animals may be considered violence, though this depends on the social mores related to animal cruelty, and the situational context in which such acts take place. The concept of violence can also be extended to any abuse, usually depending on severity. Damage to property is typically conside ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Collective unconscious

Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, and was originally coined by Carl Jung. He distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious, which is particular to each human being. The collective unconscious refers to that part of a person's unconscious which is common to all human beings. It contains archetypes, which are forms or symbols that are manifested by all people in all cultures. Some have pointed out that this is essentially metaphysic ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia - Van Helsing

Van Helsing is a 2004 action / horror film directed by Stephen Sommers. The film stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. Van Helsing - Plot summary. During the late 19th century Dr. Frankenstein works with Count Dracula to bring the dead back to life. In doing so he creates Frankenstein's Monster. Dracula disposes of Frankenstein and the monster goes into hiding. One year later Van Helsing is sent to Eastern Europe by a secret religious organization with ties to the Vatican in order to vanquis ...

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Game - Anthropology of games: Encyclopedia II - Wealth - Other concepts of wealth

Wealth - Global wealth. Michel Foucault commented that the concept of Man as an aggregate did not exist before the 18th century. The shift from the analysis of an individual's wealth to the concept of an aggregation of all men is implied in the concepts of political economy and then economics. This transition took place as a result of a cultural bias inherent in the Enlightenment. Wealth was seen as an objective fact of living as a human being in a society. ...

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