‘BomBombedKwin’: How Two Card Games ModelKula,Moka, and<scp>G</scp>oroka

Pickles, Anthony J.

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“…Transfers are possible not because the things that move are immutable objects but because the properties of things in the social world are given immutability that appears objective (Verran 2001). Indeed, the establishment, perpetuation, or erasure of the transferred object's status as a unit may well be an important feature in identifying its politics and the social reality generating it (Pickles 2013;M. Strathern 1992).…”

Section: Transfersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Anthropologists of Melanesia share with their interlocutors an overriding concern with setting the boundaries of transactions, implicating people in transactions with appeals to definitive obligations but in the knowledge that their appeals were transparently contingent (Pickles 2013(Pickles , 2017. Like Melanesianists David Akin and Joel Robbins (1999), I found that my interlocutors "regularly work to differentiate kinds of exchanges, kinds of relationships, and kinds of objects" (9) and are anxious about the collapse of these distinctions (see also M. Strathern 1992).…”

Section: Pure Gifts Maussian Gifts Unaccompanied Transfersmentioning

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“…Like Melanesianists David Akin and Joel Robbins (1999), I found that my interlocutors "regularly work to differentiate kinds of exchanges, kinds of relationships, and kinds of objects" (9) and are anxious about the collapse of these distinctions (see also M. Strathern 1992). It therefore seemed apt to shift the lens toward the prospecting work of achieving the desired transactive forms (Pickles 2017;cf. Munn 1986).…”

Section: Pure Gifts Maussian Gifts Unaccompanied Transfersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a subcategory of transaction, gambling inevitably has fuzzy borders open to ideological expansion or contraction (Pickles 2016(Pickles , 2017. The Oxford English Dictionary (2017) defines "gamble" as (1) "Play games of chance for money; bet."…”

Section: Gamblingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, few would go so far as to claim that gambling did not exist as a transactional type. For most gambling is both distinctive and deeply ingrained, and many assume it to be a universal feature of all societies, though in fact it is not (Pickles 2014b). Anglo-Saxons are among those who habitually project gambling onto other activities, often claiming that this or that activity is gambling if you think about it.…”

Section: Gamblingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2020

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This paper reinterprets core issues in economic anthropology by exploring transfers as a theoretical resource. After describing deliberate usage of the term "transfer" in anthropology and economics, transfers are defined as movements of economic matter, while transactions are the forms arising from their configuration. Transactional categories such as Maussian gift exchange or market exchange become second-order reifications. Examining the politics of creating and sustaining transactional categories by first looking at the elementary transfers out of which they are constructed places "one-way transfers" of wealth on the same conceptual plane as reciprocal and market transactions, instead of being a derivative or a remainder of either or both. Gifts and gambling are considered as examples. Gambling and "pure gifts" are one-way transfers engineered to possess only one component transfer, and Maussian gifts explicitly connect transfers together in a particular politics. Anthropological literature that employs an incipient version of the transfer strategy is detailed, demonstrating its nascent explanatory promise. The article concludes by suggesting renewed engagement with contemporary economics on the basis of transfers.

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Section: Transfersmentioning

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Section: Pure Gifts Maussian Gifts Unaccompanied Transfersmentioning

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Section: Pure Gifts Maussian Gifts Unaccompanied Transfersmentioning

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Section: Gamblingmentioning

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Section: Gamblingmentioning

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Achieving Preallocation: Turn Transition Practices in Board Games

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2020

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This paper contributes an analysis of practices for managing a preallocated turn-taking system in board games, expanding existing studies of preallocation beyond question-answer sequences. Although board games have existed for thousands of years across human cultures, and despite being a widely used method of data elicitation in many fields of research, there are few studies of how adults accomplish play. Using conversation analysis, this paper demonstrates how participants organize transition between boardgame turns, finding that participants treat the game turns as analogous to the organization of pre-and post-possible completion. However, the preallocated nature of game turns results in alternate sense making concerning delays and overlap, especially where such occurrences threaten the achievement of the activity. Data are in English. Turn-taking is used for the ordering of moves in games. .. (Sacks et al., 1974, p. 696). Sacks et al.'s (1974) description of turn-taking in conversation was a landmark in research on naturalistic interaction. As two recent studies demonstrated, similar turn-taking systems can exist even in nonspeaking social activities, such as skateboarding and swing dance jam sessions (Ivarsson & Greiffenhagen, 2015; Keevallik & Ekström, 2019). Further work has elaborated how turn-taking operates in institutional environments (Drew & Heritage, 1992), where the system is altered, especially with respect to the preallocation of turns and rights to types of turns. Although preallocation of turns has been noted, it has been dismissed from investigation because "to the extent that the order in which speakers" talk is fixed by virtue of the turn allocation restrictions, speaker selection is built into the system, and therefore is not locally managed' (Atkinson & Drew, 1979, p. 62). The current research shows that even preallocation of turns can only be achieved via members' interactional work. It is worth expanding our investigation into preallocation since so many activity settings (institutional interaction such as interviews, various forms of leisure and professional play or sport, etc.) involve various methods for delimiting rights to next turns. Games are a perspicuous setting for analyzing preallocated turn order given their ubiquity throughout human history, across cultures, and across forms of human research (see below). Although games are commonly used as a convenient example of social structure (DiCicco-Bloom & Gibson, 2010, see also the epigraph), they are rarely analyzed in their own right as an activity that involves social work to achieve. With this research, I aim to change that by examining how one element of preallocation is achieved in board games-namely, the management of game-turn transitions. This research makes two contributions to the study of language in interaction: First, it reports how preallocated turn-transition is managed by participants and how this system compares to Schegloff's (1996) description of pre-and post-possible completion, and second, it provides a framewor...

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