Money Games
Subtitle: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781789202212
Subjects: Sociology
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"--