10. A Taste for Play:

The goal of this chapter is to understand how participation in Live-Action Role-Playing (LARP) influences the lives and self-perceptions of those Siberians who are involved in this scene, and how the boundary between play and “real life” is being continually constructed and yet often disregarded at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barchunova, Tatiana, Otto Habeck, Joachim
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2020
Subjects:
JHM
Online Access:http://books.openedition.org/obp/11237
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Summary:The goal of this chapter is to understand how participation in Live-Action Role-Playing (LARP) influences the lives and self-perceptions of those Siberians who are involved in this scene, and how the boundary between play and “real life” is being continually constructed and yet often disregarded at the same time. We start with a short overview of the present-day Siberian LARP scene; then we discuss taste, play, and game in relation to the concept of lifestyle; further, we examine the construc.