'I lose, but that's not the point': Situated economic and social rationalities in horserace gambling

Leisure Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-310

  Neal, Mark ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMBLING;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 22144488128     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614360500116381     Document Type: Article

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