'Serious Games': Licences and Prohibitions in Maasai Sexuall life

'Serious Games': Licences and Prohibitions in Maasai Sexuall life

Author: 
Talle, Aud
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
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Journal Title: 
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Source: 
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute Volume 77 - Number 3 - 2007, pp. 351 - 370.
Abstract: 

I want to propose a model of practice that embodies agency but does not begin with... the agent, actor, or individual... I find fames to be the most broadly useful image. But because the idea of the fame in English connotes something relatively light and playful, I modify the term: 'serious games'... The ideal that the fame is 'serious' is meant to add into the equation the idea that power and inequality pervade the fames of life in multiple ways...

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CITATION: Talle, Aud. 'Serious Games': Licences and Prohibitions in Maasai Sexuall life . : Cambridge University Press , . Africa: Journal of the International African Institute Volume 77 - Number 3 - 2007, pp. 351 - 370. - Available at: https://library.au.int/serious-games-licences-and-prohibitions-maasai-sexuall-life-3