Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard - Softcover

Desjarlais, Robert R.

 
9780520272606: Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520272609 ISBN 13: 9780520272606
Verlag: University of California Press, 2012

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"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Immersing us directly in chesss intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Desjarlais is Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.

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"Counterplay explores the inner world of a chess player and examines how we attempt to make meaning from the game and the forms of life that surround it. Desjarlais's personal account skillfully illustrates the absorbing, enchanting, and exacting qualities of chess, while also highlighting the penury, disillusion and pettiness that regretfully permeate the game."--Jonathan Rowson, PhD, Grandmaster and British Chess Champion (2004-2006)

"This book is replete with deeply researched and closely observed details, small dramas, intriguing insights, compelling anecdotes and potted biographies--all interwoven with great authorial skill and intelligence. This is a superb introduction to the 'lifeworld' of chess that affords glimpses into the psychology of players and touches on the social and political dimensions of competitive chess. In every chapter, Desjarlais offers alluring suggestions as to what kinds of satisfaction different people find in playing chess."--Michael D. Jackson, author of The Palm at the End of the Mind

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"Counterplay explores the inner world of a chess player and examines how we attempt to make meaning from the game and the forms of life that surround it. Desjarlais's personal account skillfully illustrates the absorbing, enchanting, and exacting qualities of chess, while also highlighting the penury, disillusion and pettiness that regretfully permeate the game." Jonathan Rowson, PhD, Grandmaster and British Chess Champion (2004-2006)

"This book is replete with deeply researched and closely observed details, small dramas, intriguing insights, compelling anecdotes and potted biographies all interwoven with great authorial skill and intelligence. This is a superb introduction to the 'lifeworld' of chess that affords glimpses into the psychology of players and touches on the social and political dimensions of competitive chess. In every chapter, Desjarlais offers alluring suggestions as to what kinds of satisfaction different people find in playing chess." Michael D. Jackson, author of The Palm at the End of the Mind

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520272609
ISBN 13 
9780520272606
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
266
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