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Laws of Chance – Brazil′s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life: Radical Perspectives

Autor Amy Chazkel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2011
The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game’s early history, as booking agents, dealers, and players spread throughout Rio and the lottery was outlawed and driven underground. Analyzing the game’s popularity, its persistence despite bouts of state repression, and its socio-cultural meanings, Amy Chazkel unearths a rich history of popular participation in urban public life during the decades after the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the establishment of the Brazilian republic in 1889. Contending that the jogo do bicho was a precursor to the massive informal economies that developed later in the twentieth century, she sheds new light on the roots of the informal trade that is central to everyday life in urban Latin America. The jogo do bicho operated as a form of unlicensed petty commerce in the vast gray area between the legal and the illegal. Police records show that players and sellers were often arrested but rarely prosecuted. Chazkel argues that the animal game developed in dialogue with the official judicial system. Ticket sellers, corrupt police, and lenient judges worked out a system of everyday justice that would characterize public life in Brazil throughout the twentieth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822349884
ISBN-10: 0822349884
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 33 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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Cuprins

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; A Note on Brazilian Currency and Orthography; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Origins of the Jogo do Bicho; Chapter 2: The Rules of the Game; Chapter 3: An Underworld of Goods; Chapter 4: Playing with Money in Republican Rio de Janeiro; Chapter 5: Lives of the Players; Chapter 6: ‘Vale o Escrito’; EpilogueAppendix: Federal Legislation Pertaining to the Jogo do Bicho, 1890-1946; Glossary of Portuguese Terms; Bibliography; Summary of Archives Consulted and Abbreviations; Index

Recenzii

“Taking the origins and evolution of a seemingly innocuous and commonplace informal lottery--the Brazilian ‘animal game’--as a foundation, this study builds concentric rings of information and analysis to explore relationships: between law and practice, state and society, formal institutions and everyday life. The result is an illuminating essay on modernity and urban culture more broadly.” Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis“Focusing on a fascinating place and time, Amy Chazkel casts unprecedented light on the tangled relations among gambling, market culture, and the modern state. She also tells a lot of good stories. Laws of Chance is a delight to read, as well as a major work of imaginative historical scholarship.”--Jackson Lears, author of Something for Nothing: Luck in America
"Taking the origins and evolution of a seemingly innocuous and commonplace informal lottery--the Brazilian 'animal game'--as a foundation, this study builds concentric rings of information and analysis to explore relationships: between law and practice, state and society, formal institutions and everyday life. The result is an illuminating essay on modernity and urban culture more broadly." Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis "Focusing on a fascinating place and time, Amy Chazkel casts unprecedented light on the tangled relations among gambling, market culture, and the modern state. She also tells a lot of good stories. Laws of Chance is a delight to read, as well as a major work of imaginative historical scholarship."--Jackson Lears, author of Something for Nothing: Luck in America

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The history of a popular but illegal Brazilian lottery