Counterplay : an anthropologist at the chessboard
Desjarlais, Robert R.2012
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Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game of chess, the author guides readers into the world of 21st-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new 'anthropology of passion'.
Main title:
Counterplay : an anthropologist at the chessboard / Robert Desjarlais.
Author:
Imprint:
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2012.
Collation:
266 p. : ill.
Notes:
Originally published: 2011.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780520272606 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
263469
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