Inventing the Discipline While You Break It All Down: An Essay in Memory of Brian Sutton-Smith

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Anna Beresin

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After I stumbled across his 1986 book, Toys as Culture, in a bookstore in Boston, I moved to Philadelphia to study with Brian Sutton-Smith. Jointly appointed in the Department of Folklore and at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, he ran the Interdisciplinary Study of Human Development program with a giddy seriousness that kept students at the edge of their seats. His reading lists there were the most varied I ever encountered, and this essay offers a miniature reading list in order to share the breadth of his genius.

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