Playing with Things: The Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnography of Human-object Interactions in Atlantic Scotland

Cover
Title Page
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Contents
Acknowledgements
	Chapter 1
Introduction
	A heuristic study
	This study
	The Study Area
		The archaeology of play
	What is Play?
	Archaeology and Play
	Themes and Results of this study
		Bricolage
		Placement
		Extended Cognition
		Agency and Play
		Awkward Objects
		Play and the world
			Chapter 2
Playing Chess
	Introduction
		The rules of Chess
	Some Chess Background
		Chess and Cognition
	Chess and Memory
	Memory in Action
	Thinking with things
		Accounting for the Opponent
	Materiality
		Agency and Chess
		Action by Proxy
		Performing Chess
			Chapter 3
Playing Euchre
	Introduction
		Euchre in its Context
		Risk
		Rules as Paths
	Playing Euchre
		The History and Rules of Euchre
		Scoring at Euchre
	Playing Euchre on Westray
		The place of Euchre in Westray
	The Players
	How to win at Euchre
		Following the Cards
	Westray: A brief Introduction
		Location
		Economy
		The Church
	Risk Management
	Farming on Westray
		Rules for Farming
		Selling Animals
		Farming regulations
		Farming with animals
	Success and Failure/Bigger and Smaller on Westray
	Back to the Euchre: Following not Leading
	Cognition, Cards and Cows
	Following Rules, Taking Directions.
		Chapter 4
Counters
	Introduction
	Sets
	Bricolage
	Art Bricolage
		Found Objects
	Shetland Counters
		Chapter 5
Dice
	Introduction
		Following Dice
		Play and Ritual
	Ritual and play
	Parallelopiped Dice
	Dating, Context, Condition
		Dating
		Context
		Condition
	Numbers
		How the Dice Were Used
	Rolling, throwing, placing
	Atlantic Scotland during the Late Iron Age
		Brochs
		Wheelhouses
		Souterrains
	Broch, Wheelhouse, Souterrain
	Changing Architecture
	Changing Artefacts
	Changing Economies
	Some Reasons for Change
	Discussion
		Parallelopiped dice in their wider context
		Parallelopiped dice in their local context
	Dice, Play, Ritual
		Chapter 6
Tafl
	Literary Sources
	Tafl in Atlantic Scotland
	From Notation to Action by Proxy
	The archaeology of Tafl
		Learning to play at Inchmarnock
		Playing Tafl with Brochs
		Buried Tafl
			Chapter 7
Awkward Objects
	Awkward Objects
	Awkward Type 1: Found Objects
	Awkward Type 2: Surface Treatment: Painted Pebbles and Shetland Discs
		Painted Pebbles
		Shetland Discs
	Awkward Type 3: The Wrong Context
	Finally: some very awkward objects
		Chapter 8
Final Discussion
	Chess and Euchre
	Archaeology and Play
	Revisiting Huizinga
	Playing with things
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