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The American Journal of Play is an interdisciplinary journal written for a diverse international readership.
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The latest issue of the American Journal of Play is a special double issue focused on toys and the power of playthings. It features interviews with artist Brian McCarty on his non-profit War Toys and the art toys movement, and scholar Stephen Jacobs on the history of Jewish toy and game developers and entrepreneurs. The issue also includes articles that explore the impact of childhood toys and play on adult skills and interests, puzzling in times of crisis, the history and role of loose parts play, the evolution of board game authorship, ethnographic toys, adult doll play as therapeutic intervention, YouTube toy play videos, and children’s online play groups.
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