{"product_id":"gambling-life-thomas-m-malaby-9780252028281","title":"Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City","description":"The only ethnography devoted to the practice of gambling as its core subject, \u003ci\u003eGambling Life\u003c\/i\u003e considers the stakes of social action in one community on the island of Crete. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eGambling Life\u003c\/i\u003e questions the longstanding valorization of order and pattern in the social sciences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas M. Malaby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252028287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252028281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.46w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 1119","brand":"Thomas M. Malaby","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096663924991,"sku":"9780252028281","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gambling-life-thomas-m-malaby-9780252028281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}