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. Rich eth...

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Main Author: Pickles, Anthony J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2019]
Series:ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 10
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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DE-739
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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 which span the globe. This anthropological study of everyday economics in Melanesia thereby intersects with theories of money, value, play, informal economy, social change and leadership
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789202229
DOI:10.1515/9781789202229

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