Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… it reveals that this leisure practice played a significant part in strategies of distinction through conspicuous consumption and sociable performance. The betting book: an object at the heart of a specific sociable practice Betting, … a bureaucratic aid. Enshrining one’s wager in the book for all to read was definitely part of the culture of conspicuous consumption. A betting book was placed on display for all club members to view, and thus acted as a ‘semi-official …
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