Book Review: Contribution à un Lexique Commenté en Science de l'Action Motrice

摘要

The first edition of this book (1981) was entitled “Contribution à un Lexique commenté enScience de l’Action Motrice,” (Contribution to a commented lexicon in Science of Motor Action).Eighteen years later, a new and augmented edition (1999) is intitled “Jeux, Sports et Société,”(Games, Sports, and Society), with a subtitle “Lexique de Praxéologie Motrice,” (Lexicon of MotorPraxeology). The cover of the first edition was stark. The second one draws the attention with asixteen century print showing players in action. The first edition is a testimony of the birth of a newpoint of view on motor actions. The second highlights one of the consequence of this new pointof view: the interest of traditional games. Motor praxeology was bearing itself the highlighting oftheir richness.