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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)
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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