In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Some thoughts on games

| January 9, 2009

One of the more interesting activities that humans come up with is games (loosely construed).  Back in the day, aka before the Methodist onslaught destroyed play as a serious activity in the 17th century, games and play acted as educational and/training events for people.  We can see this in activities as varied as cossak (or [...]

Notes towards a theory of asymmetric conflict, part 1

| August 13, 2008

[Note: I am in the process of putting together a journal article on asymmetric warfare and I will be using the next few posts to help me think abut it.] Competition appears to be an inevitable consequence of our natural (read biological) state. Darwin termed this “natural selection”. But, as with most species, we are [...]