Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
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.

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Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
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.

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Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

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

Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

by Anthony J. Pickles

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789202212
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 06/06/2019
Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology , #10
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

List of 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

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