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Title: Dissecting Larp
Editors: Ragnhild Hutchison, Peter Bøckmann
Writers: Many (to be updated)
Publisher: Knutepunkt 2005
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
Published: Juy 2011
Number of Pages: 248
Edition: First edition
ISBN: No ISBN

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About the book
Larp needs understanding. Understanding requires knowledge. Finding knowledge involves digging into the murky material and getting your hands dirty. Finding understanding requires the will to dissect your own knowledge. Nearly all writers on larp are avid larpers them selves. This makes the process of finding

understanding a lot more di icult than most people outside the field would think. Larp can at its best be intensely emotional and inspirational, even a defining element of ones life. At its worst larp is just boring. Getting to understand larp demands that the writer is willing to cast aside the fondness they feel for their subject, to evaluate the failures and boring bits. You cannot dissect without taking your subject apart.

This is the dissection, here are their findings.