Money Games

<ul> <li> It is the only book about gambling in the Pacific</li> <li> It is the only monograph concerning a locale where gambling was adopted in living memory</li> <li> It is one of only a handful of ethnographies of an urban locale in Highland Papua New Guinea</li> <li> It uses uncommonly expansive cross-cultural and regional comparisons blended with thick ethnographic documentation thereby making broad claims about contemporary Papua New Guinea</li></ul>