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Berghahn Books Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town: 10 (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, 10)

Name: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town: 10 (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, 10)
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Product 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. Review "This ability to tie gambling to broader economic practices, processes of identification, and social changes, is one of the key strengths of this monograph...It is an engaging and thoroughly interesting ethnography that will be of great interest to all students of economic anthropology, the cultural and social dynamics of Pacific Island communities, and the interdisciplinary field of gambling studies." - Pacific Affairs"Money Games is at once wholly original in subject matter and rigorous and convincing in argumentation. This study is a genuine breakthrough in our understanding of contemporary life in Papua New Guinea and it stands as a novel intervention in recent debates about the nature of money and social aspects of economic life." - Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge"Money Games will doubtless become an important book in the anthropology of economy, value and money, as well as a substantial contribution to the Melanesianist literature." - Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine About the Author Anthony J. Pickles is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Bye-Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge. He was formerly Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge.

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Brand: Berghahn Books
Format: Library Binding
ASIN: 1789202213
Category: Books > Subjects > Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 June 2019
Listed Since: 14 November 2018

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