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In the essay Homo Ludens, anthropologist Johan Huizinga analyzes the playful dimension as the generator of human culture. Play is older than culture because animals did not have to wait for humans to teach them how to play, so it is a pre-human manifestation. In the earliest forms of human civilization, culture arises in a...