“The game is the thing.” (Alan Macfarlane, The Making of the Modern World)pic.twitter.com/4R8zuO3qJW
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Hmm this seems a bit at odds with the perspectives in for eg. Huizenga or Geertz Deep Play (the part about demands of politics/kinship/faith being excluded... IME they strongly define the context of play folkways)
yeah this is something different - what makes it modern in his view is the decoupling from the other spheres
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thought of you when I read "escape into modernity"
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There is definitely a weird relationship to social mobility across class/race boundaries associated with modern sports (black athletes in the US, cricket in the subcontinent) which supports the decoupling hypothesis... but otoh, gladiatorialization as new class formation
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So basically organized league style sports and games? The kind that peaked with Putnam's bowling-alone culture?
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Putnam claimed it peaked in the 1950s iirc but I don't see why they can't exist in postmodernity (I'm on a sports league and I'm me lol)
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