Jessica Cattelino

High Stakes

Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography that looks at how the casinos run by the Florida Seminoles have affected the tribe's ideas about sovereignty and cultural distinctiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342090
• ISBN-10: 082234209X
• Artikelnr.: 23880172

Autorenporträt

Jessica R. Cattelino is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Seminole Gaming in the Sunshine State 1
1. Casino Roots 29
2. Cultural Currencies 59
3. Fungibility: The Politics of Casino Money 95
Interlude: Mateo Romero's Indian Gaming 125
4. Rebuilding Sovereignty 127
5. Sovereign Interdependencies 161
Conclusion: Betting on the House 193
Notes 207
References 253
Index 279