Laws of chance : Brazil's clandestine lottery and the making of urban public life /
Chronicles the first decades of an informal lottery called the jogo do bicho, or animal game, which originated in Rio de Janeiro in 1892, and remains popular in Brazil today.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Radical perspectives.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins of the Jogo do Bicho
- The rules of the game
- An underworld of goods
- Playing with money in republican Rio de Janeiro
- Lives of the players
- Vale o escrito.