Title Gambling life : dealing in contingency in a Greek city / Thomas M. Malaby.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-157) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Engaging uncertainties -- Shifting ground -- Things not being equal -- Poker and locating the modern -- Playing the state's game -- Zaria : solitude among many -- Confronting consequences.
Summary	The only ethnography devoted to the practice of gambling as its core subject, this text considers the stakes of social action in one community on the island of Crete.
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Subject	Gambling -- Greece -- Chania.
	Gambling.
	Greece -- Chania.
	Social interaction -- Greece -- Chania.
	Social interaction.
	Chania (Greece) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Malaby, Thomas M., 1967- Gambling life 0252028287 (DLC) 2002014271 (OCoLC)50604797
ISBN	9780252091797 (electronic book)
	0252091795 (electronic book)
	0252028287
	9780252028281