Money Games : Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town /

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Gambling in Papua New Guinea, despite being completely absent prior to the Colonial era, has come to supersede storytelling as the region's main nighttime activity. Money Games is an ethnographic monograph which reveals the contemporary importance of gambling in urban Papua New Guinea. Rich eth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickles, Anthony J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]
Colección:ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 10
Temas:
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Goroka.
Gambling > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea > Goroka.
NON-CLASSIFIABLE.
Anthropology of money.
Economic Adaptation, Anthropology of gambling.
Economic anthropology.
Gameplay.
Goroka.
Highlands.
Melanesia.
Pacific gambling.
Pokies anthropology.
urban Papua New Guinea.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Text
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Selected Histories
  • Chapter 2. The Pattern Changes Changes
  • Chapter 3. The Tyranny of Denomination
  • Chapter 4. The Fastest Money in Goroka
  • Chapter 5. The Big-Shots at Old Slots
  • Chapter 6. The Origin of Pooling
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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