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Eagles, Donkeys, and Butterflies: An Anthropological Study of Brazil's Animal Game

Eagles, Donkeys, and Butterflies: An Anthropological Study of Brazil's Animal Game

Damatta, Roberto
Soárez, Elena

Paperback

Series: Kellogg Institute Democracy and Development

AnthropologyGeneral GamblingSouth American History

ISBN10: 0268025800
ISBN13: 9780268025809
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Jan 31 2006
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Roberto DaMatta, one of the foremost Brazilian anthropologists, and his colleague Elena Soárez approach the question of gambling in popular culture in general and its treatment in social anthropology in particular. They focus on the animal game, a kind of popular gambling entertainment or lottery within Brazil in which locals bet on a list of twenty-five animals. They argue that the success of this game, which originated in 1882 with the founding of the first zoo in Rio de Janeiro, and the social release the game provides are significant aspects of Brazilian social history and of the Brazilian identity. Within the animal game, players totemize and identify with various animals. DaMatta and Soárez use this identification as a lens through which to view Brazil's modernity, society, the significance of gambling, and even the role of animal images in Brazilian and Western society.

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