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PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

ISBN-100252028287

ISBN-139780252028281

eBay Product ID (ePID)2300274

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGambling Life : Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City

SubjectGambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Anthropology / General, Social Psychology, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2003

TypeTextbook

AuthorThomas M. Malaby

Subject AreaSocial Science, Games & Activities, Psychology

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-014271

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsADVANCE PRAISE ''A cogent piece of work whose text flows beautifully with engaging analysis and nice ethnographic detail. Malaby makes a major contribution to anthropological thinking about its core concept --culture -- by introducing risk and indeterminacy into the conversation.'' -- 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

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.482

Table Of ContentIntroduction - engaging uncertainties; shifting ground; things not being equal; poker and locating the modern; playing the state's game; zaria - solitude among many; confronting consequences.

SynopsisThe 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 cafes, 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 courtship and mortality to state bureaucracy and national identity. By moving beyond risk and fate as unexamined analytical categories, Malaby presents a new model for research concerning indeterminacy, seeing it as arising from stochastic, performative, and other sources. "Gambling Life" questions the longstanding valorization of order and pattern in the social sciences. ", 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 ......, 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 courtship and mortality to state bureaucracy and national identity. By moving beyond risk and fate as unexamined analytical categories, Malaby presents a new model for research concerning indeterminacy, seeing it as arising from stochastic, performative, and other sources. Gambling Life questions the longstanding valorization of order and pattern in the social sciences., 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 caf s, 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 courtship and mortality to state bureaucracy and national identity. By moving beyond risk and fate as unexamined analytical categories, Malaby presents a new model for research concerning indeterminacy, seeing it as arising from stochastic, performative, and other sources. Gambling Life questions the longstanding valorization of order and pattern in the social sciences., 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 courtship and mortality to state bureaucracy and national identity.By moving beyond risk and fate as unexamined analytical categories, Malaby presents a new model for research concerning indeterminacy, seeing it as arising from stochastic, performative, and other sources. Gambling Life questions the longstanding valorization of order and pattern in the social sciences.

LC Classification NumberGN454