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Can I read Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology Book 10) on EtoBox?
Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology Book 10) by Anthony J. Pickles is a games available to read on EtoBox.
What is Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology Book 10) about?
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, inform
Who reads Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology Book 10)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Anthony J. Pickles
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781789202229
- Category
- games
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Games, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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