Hardcover • 2003 • English

Gambling Life DEALING IN CONTINGENCY IN A GREEK CITY

Name: Gambling Life DEALING IN CONTINGENCY IN A GREEK CITY
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ISBN: 9780252028281

By Thomas M. Malaby

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About the book

The only ethnography devoted to the practice of gambling as its core subject, Gambling Life considers the stakes of social action in one community on the island of Crete. Backgammon cafés, card clubs, and hidden gambling rooms in the city of Chania provide the context for Thomas M. Malaby to examine the ways in which people confront uncertainty in their lives. He shows how the dynamics of gambling -- risk, fate, uncertainty, and luck -- are reflected in other aspects of gamblers’ lives from cou...Show more

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ISBN

9780252028281

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Gambling Life DEALING IN CONTINGENCY IN A GREEK CITY

Format

Hardcover

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