Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
ISBN-10
1789202213
ISBN-13
9781789202212
Series
Money Games
Category
Games & Activities
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2019-06-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Anthony J. Pickles

Description

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.

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