Anthropos: Anthropos, 67.1972

Anthropos, 67.1972

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711766

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711766

Persistent identifier:: 1510232343021

Title:: Anthropos, 67.1972

Year of Publication:: 1972

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 67, 1972, Heft 1-2

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Article

Title:: "Validation" of Game Classification Models against Sundanese Children's Games

Other person:: Royce, Joseph

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

“Validation” of Game Classification Models against Sundanese Children’s Games Joseph Royce Recreational activities, although of classic concern, have been described by ethnographers in a rather haphazard fashion. This may have been due to the lack of a cohesive system of identification and presentation. Recently, the contributions of Caillois (1961) and Roberts et. al. (1959) provided us with some models of game classification that show promise. These models have already been used to show the relationship between types of games and religious practices, childrearing concepts (Roberts and Sutton-Smith 1962), environmental conditions and the like (Roberts et al. 1959). Their system has been the basis of Murdock’s (1967) attempt to map types of games in his Ethnographic Atlas. Most comparative studies in this area, however, are dependent on lists of games which have been produced by scientists, whose major interests focused on other aspects of the cultures under their scrutiny. Their description of games, therefore, is likely to have been less thorough and complete as may have been wished. Dependence on such descriptions, then, could result in the assignment of certain games to the wrong categories of the theoretical model by subsequent workers, In turn, this would affect the outcome of the compar ison of cultures according to the types of games that are played. Correlations between the incidence of type X games, for instance, and psychological trait Y, depend on the cumulated judgments of the original field researcher (who described the games), the designer of the game classifi cation system who placed certain games in class X, the designer of the psycho logical test scale of which Y may be one trait, and others. The field researcher, not knowing about a game classfication system, uses his own judgment as to what to include in his report, and what to leave out. The game classifier may discard some games as not fitting his system or purpose (Roberts et al. 1959), and may never be aware of some already left out by the field researcher. From the psychological direction the same problems may ensue in regard to classi-

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