Cockfighting as a Way of Reading Balinese Culture in Geertz's "Deep Play"
Title: Cockfighting as a Way of Reading Balinese Culture in Geertz's "Deep Play"
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1278 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cockfighting as a Way of Reading Balinese Culture in Geertz's "Deep Play"
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1278 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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Much of the Balinese character comes to the surface in the fighting ring because it is not just the cocks that are fighting, it is also men. The ethnographer Clifford Geertz called these bouts of mortal fury "so pure, so absolute, and in their own way so beautiful, as to become abstract - a Platonic concept of hate."(Geertz 372)
