Card Games Among Aborigines of the Northern Territory

Berndt, Ronald M.; Berndt, Catherine H.

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1947.tb00150.x

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“…Some gamblers gambled with almost anyone who was willing and able to gamble, some even ignoring cultural rules to extend gambling time. Ignoring cultural rules for gambling, also noted by Berndt and Berndt (1947) and Martin (1993), points to a disregard for traditional relationships and increased access to card gambling. Access to card games, conditions of entry, length of play and price of gambling were varied to suit player circumstances and the context.…”

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Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Gambling Products and Services: Indigenous Gamblers in North Queensland

Breen

2010

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Gambling Products and Services: Indigenous Gamblers in North Queensland

Breen

2010

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Some aboriginal groups of northern Australia gambled at cards at the time of first contact with Europeans, a practice introduced by Asian traders (Berndt and Berndt, 1947;Robinson, 1978). In Micronesia and Polynesia, only a few peoples can be assumed to have gambled (Cooper, 1941).…”

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Gambling Across Cultures: Mapping Worldwide Occurrence and Learning from Ethnographic Comparison

Binde¹

2005

International Gambling Studies

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This paper first maps the distribution of indigenous gambling in cultures around the world. On the basis of extensive ethnographic and historical evidence, it is concluded that gambling is not a universal phenomenon; prior to the era of European colonisation, non-gambling societies appear to have covered large areas of the globe. The pattern of gambling and non-gambling peoples and nations invites speculation and investigation. The second part of the paper reviews and critically discusses statistical cross-cultural studies that have aimed to uncover factors that promote or restrain the playing of games of chance and the practice of gambling. Some of these factors, which allow us to predict to a certain extent the presence and intensity of gambling in societies, are: the presence of commercially used money, social inequality, societal complexity, and the presence of certain kinds of competitive inter-tribal relations.

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“…(iv) Berndt and Berndt (1947b: 249) state that a form of card game was learnt by the Aborigines from the Macassans. No detailed evidence is provided, and it would seem possible that there has been some unconscious accretion of ideas by informants in the contemporary European work-camps.…”

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Macassans and Aborigines

Macknight¹

1972

Oceania

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Card Games Among Aborigines of the Northern Territory

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Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Gambling Products and Services: Indigenous Gamblers in North Queensland

Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Gambling Products and Services: Indigenous Gamblers in North Queensland

Gambling Across Cultures: Mapping Worldwide Occurrence and Learning from Ethnographic Comparison

Macassans and Aborigines

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