Introduction

Abstract

The game: a Social Sciences and Humanities object Following, in a more or less critical way, Johan Huizinga (1980 [1949])’s steps, few authors successfully demonstrated the legitimacy of studies of play practices in the Social Sciences. Exceptions are Roger Caillois – beyond the usual limits, particularly empirical ones, of his approach to the game object - with his call to make a sociology based on Games (2001 [1961]), or Clifford Geertz (1973), who hypothesized that the game is a signific...