Laws of Chance
Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
by Amy Chazkel
346 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780822349884
About
Chronicles the first decades of an informal lottery called the jogo do bicho, or animal game, which originated in Rio de Janeiro in 1892, and remains popular in Brazil today.
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