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4 - Play and Creativity

from Part I - Play and Ritual: Forms, Foundations and Evolution in Animals and Humans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

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Patrick Bateson
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Colin Renfrew ,
Iain Morley  and
Michael Boyd
Colin Renfrew
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Iain Morley
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Michael Boyd
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies , pp. 40 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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