Gambling Life
Publisher： University of Illinois Press
Publication year： 2003
E-ISBN: 9780252091797
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252028281
Subject： C91 Sociology
Keyword： 社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
Backgammon cafes, card clubs, and hidden gambling rooms in the city of Chania provide the context for 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 courtship and mortality to state bureaucracy and national identity. A cogent piece of work whose text flows beautifully with engaging analysis and nice ethnographic detail. . . . A major contribution to anthropological thinking.? -- Janet Hart, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and the author of New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance