Money Games : : Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town / / Anthony J. Pickles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Pickles, Anthony J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Text --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Selected Histories --; Chapter 2. The Pattern Changes Changes --; Chapter 3. The Tyranny of Denomination --; Chapter 4. The Fastest Money in Goroka --; Chapter 5. The Big-Shots at Old Slots --; Chapter 6. The Origin of Pooling --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789202229; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789202229?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anthony J. Pickles.

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.