Question
In Shared Fantasies, Gary Alan Fine studies Dungeons & Dragons through an anthropological perspective by using “frame analysis”, a method combining the work of Erving Goffman and this thinker. For 10 points each,
[10m] Name this thinker who extensively used film elicitation during his study of the Bajoeng Gede in Bali with his wife Margaret Mead. This thinker introduced his idea of the “metalogue” in his Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
ANSWER: Gregory Bateson
[10e] D&D has also been studied by authors like Joseph Laycock by utilizing Clifford Geertz’s study of the “deep” variety of this concept, which Geertz analyzed in the Balinese cockfight.
ANSWER: deep play
[10h] Laycock compares being engrossed in D&D to this concept studied by Emile Durkheim in Elementary Forms of Religious Life, which occurs when a group communicates simultaneously in a way that excites individuals and unifies the group.
ANSWER: collective effervescence
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Stanford A | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |