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The dirty play of little boys

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  1. the University of Minnesota, USA

    Gary Alan Fine (professor of sociology)

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He is studying the leisure worlds of mushroom hunters, butterfly collectors, and rock hounds to observe how the mundane natural world is given significance. His book With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture will be published in the spring of 1987 by the University of Chicago Press.

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Fine, G.A. The dirty play of little boys. Society 24, 63–67 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695941

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