Introduction
Anthony D. Pellegrini
Part I: Play As Progress
1. Play, Ethology, and Education: A Personal Account
Peter K. Smith
2. Animal Play, Games of Angels, Biology, and Brian
Robert Fagen
3. Children's Play and Adult Leisure
Garry Chick and Lynn A. Barnett
Part II: Play as Power
4. Competitive Play on the Plains: An Analysis of Games and Warfare Among Native American Warrior Societies, 1800-1850
John W. Loy and Graham L. Hesketh
5. Boys' Rough-and-Tumble Play and Social Competence: Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Relations
Anthony D. Pellegrini
6. Aggressive Toy Play
Jeffrey Goldstein
Part III: Play as Fantasy
7. Toys and Stories
Greta G. Fein
8. The Promotion and Marketing of Toys: Time to Rethink the Paradox?
Stephen Kline
9. Imaginative Play in Childhood: Precursor of Subjunctive Thoughts, Daydreaming, and Adult Pretending Games
Jerome L. Singer
10. Social Pretend with Mother and Sibling: Individual Differences and Social Understanding
Lisa M. Youngblade and Judy Dunn
Part IV: Play as Self
11. Representing Children's Play: Anthropologists at Work
Helen B. Schwartzman
12. Past Play: Relics, Memory, and History
Bernard Mergen
Conclusion: The Persuasive Rhetorics of Play
Brian Sutton-Smith
Appendix: A List of Brian Sutton-Smith's Play-Related Publications
F.F. McMahon