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By: Jesper

Jesper — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:35:05 +0000

@Maurício Great find. I will try to get hold of a copy. This is interesting in that it seems to introduce ludology more directly than the texts that I have found.

It is possible that the actual article is even earlier, but Google books can be very imprecise with dates:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cla+especialidad+que+investiga+como+ha+jugado+el+hombre&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1

By: Maurício Piccini

Maurício Piccini — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:08:29 +0000

I’ve found a while ago, looking for the word “Ludologia” (in Portuguese), an article in Spanish “Ludologia y Ludoterapia”, by Jose M. Lunazzi. The article seems to be in “Boletín del Museo Social Argentino” – Vol. 34-35 – page 79, from 1947 (march/april). But I did not find any one that could access a physical copy of this Boletín to confirm.

The OCR can be found through Google Books.

The article defines “lodologia” as “la especialidad que investiga como ha jugado el hombre, cuales son las condiciones positivas de su ser ludrico, como en virtud de determinada tecnica de juego puede reaccionar contra las propias contrariedades o contra las oposiciones que le ha originado el medio social.”

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:33:47 +0000

Thanks, Lars!

By: Lars Konzack

Lars Konzack — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:32:00 +0000

Per Maigaard’s article can be found here:

http://issuu.com/larskonzack/docs/maigaardludology