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A Handbook of Leisure Studies

Editors: Rojek, Chris; Shaw, Susan M.; Veal, A. J.

DOI: 10.1057/9780230625181

ISBN: 978-1-4039-0279-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 14, 2015

1 - 10 of 33 Chapters

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Introduction: Process and Content

Rojek, Chris; Shaw, Susan M.; Veal, A. J.

Pages: 1 –21

[This Handbook is designed to provide a cadastral survey of the various and diverse ways in which leisure forms and practice are situated and develop and the contribution of Leisure Studies in elucidating these processes. In the last 20 years, Leisure Studies has matured. Throughout the world,...
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Leisure, Culture and Civilization

Rojek, Chris

Pages: 25 –40

[Culture or civilization? What is the most suitable context in which to locate leisure forms and practice? For some readers it may seem a peculiar brace of questions to address. In everyday speech, culture and civilization are often presented as interchangeable, with nothing but the thinness of a...
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Anthropology/Pre-history of Leisure

Chick, Garry

Pages: 41 –54

[Edward Burnett Tylor, widely regarded as the founder of anthropology, titled Chapter XII in his 1881 text, Anthropology, ‘The Arts of Pleasure’. In that chapter, Tylor described aspects of poetry and rhyme, music and musical instruments, dance, drama, art, play, and games among ancient and...
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The History of Western Leisure

Hunnicutt, Benjamin K.

Pages: 55 –74

[Beginning with Classical Greece and Rome, via Medieval Europe, the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, there is a rich historiography of the development of leisure in the West. Leisure has reflected, and continues to reflect, patterns of social, cultural, religious, political, economic...
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Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India

Bhattacharya, Kumkum

Pages: 75 –89

[Indian civilization is ancient, having a rich cultural heritage. Two of the broad parameters of this heritage are classical and folk that can be further qualified by the dimension of modernity. Ideas about leisure and leisure activities in India perforce have evolved under the combined influence...
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Sociology and Cultural Studies

van der Poel, Hugo

Pages: 93 –108

[In order to survive people need to do things. They have to eat and drink, protect themselves from heat and cold, violence and illnesses. These activities take time. There are great differences in the amount of time individuals, groups and societies spend on necessary activities, but most people,...
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Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure

Mannell, Roger C.; Kleiber, Douglas A.; Staempfli, Marianne

Pages: 109 –124

[Various social science traditions have influenced theory and research on leisure. In this chapter, we describe psychological perspectives, and these perspectives are primarily those of social psychology with some influences from personality and developmental psychology. Advocates of the...
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Geographies of Leisure

Crouch, David

Pages: 125 –139

[This chapter rapidly shifts from acknowledging the more traditional arenas of geographical work in leisure studies to engage in a fuller discussion of new orientations and contributions that geography is making to leisure studies. Once understood as a support to much of leisure studies, an...
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Economics of Leisure

Veal, A. J.

Pages: 140 –161

[Economists were among the first to analyse leisure, foremost among them being Thorstein Veblen, whose Theory of the Leisure Class, published in 1899, was subtitled An Economic Study of Institutions. It is one measure of Veblen’s originality that it was another 60 years before the economics of...
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The Duality of Leisure Policy

Coalter, Fred

Pages: 162 –181

[The history of public leisure policy in the United Kingdom (but also elsewhere) has been characterized by an essential duality. Government involvement and investment has the dual purposes of extending social rights of individual citizenship while recognizing the potential wider social benefits...

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