Money games : gambling in a Papua New Guinea town /

"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. Ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pickles, Anthony J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Series:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 10.
Subjects:
Gambling > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea > Goroka.
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Goroka.
Jeux de hasard > Aspect social > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Goroka.
Ethnologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Goroka.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
GAMES / Gambling / General
Ethnology.
Gambling > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Goroka (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs.
Papua New Guinea > Goroka.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 ethnographic detail is coupled with cross-cultural comparison spanning the globe. This anthropological study of everyday economics in Melanesia thereby intersects with theories of money, value, play, informal economy, social change and leadership"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781789202229
1789202221

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