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| Title | Mathematical models, outdoor games and the social sciences |
| Author | PARLEBAS Pierre |
| Keywords | Interactive system, Internal logic, Mathematical model, Paradoxical game, Ritual, Sport, Traditional game |
| Topic | None |
| Abstract | Outdoor games embody physical activities with a social impact, capable of highlighting the norms and values of their cultural sphere of influence. A mathematical model of their content reveals universal values, whose internal logic can be expressed through graphs and matrices. Thus, in a measurable and often striking way, a cultural outlook, of which outdoor games are in part a reflection, is highlighted. The contrast between rituals and outdoor games as suggested by Claude Lévi-Strauss is challenged here, in favour of a different contrast between games and sports. Traditional games cannot be consistently put in the same category as «zero sum games», as in the case of sport; they may assume very different sorts of «non-zero sum» internal logic, in particular epitomised by competitive (and not exclusive) games, and through paradoxical games. |
| Number | 191, Fall 2010, special issue: Variability and inequalities |
| Language | French |
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