Play: Miscellaneous

The Human World

Image 1: Board game in Chinatown, San Francisco

Image 2. Big chess in a park in Stuttgart, Germany

Image 3. Boffers, battling it out with soft weapons in Berkeley.

Image 4. The photo is from Paris.
Boules, or Pétanque, is the traditional game from the south of France,
and it's a good bet that these players are from the South.

Image 5. Boules, or Pétanque

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Image 7. Traces of an informal game, seen in the Sierra Nevada.

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Image 9. In Arles, France

Image 10. A forest canopy researcher takes a moment to hang out between the trees, about 250 feet off the ground.

Image 11. Mendocino coast, California

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Image 15. The model train in Tilden Park, Berkeley

Image 16. At an outdoor market, Forcalquier, France

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Image 18. Play or work?

Image 19. Humans certainly didn't invent play.

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