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.

List 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

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

• Authors: Anthony J Pickles, Anthony J. Pickles
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781789202212
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-221-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Asao Studies in Pacific Anthro; ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology; ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous