Money Games : : Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town / / 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 ethnogra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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