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Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town (Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology #10) (Hardcover)

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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.

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.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781789202212
ISBN-10: 1789202213
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: June 6th, 2019
Pages: 216
Language: English
Series: Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology