Settlement Selection and Inequality in Video Games through an Anthropological Lens: Exploring the Catan Universe

Settlement Selection and Inequality in Video Games through an Anthropological Lens: Exploring the Catan Universe

For thousands of years, humans have been entertained by board games. The earliest documented game boards date to at least 6000 BC in the Near East (Sebbane 2001), and we know the name, Senet , and rules of a board game from Egypt dating to 3500–3100 BC. Aspects of inequality are omnipresent in the d...

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