"Deep Play: Notes On The Balinese Cockfight"
Beginning of paper
In the critical essay,
by Clifford Geertz, the author describes a very important part of the
Balinese culture - the cockfight. This fight represents more than it first
appears. Cockfights are well attended events by men only. Bets are taken
on these events. However, the money isn't all that i ....
Middle of paper
.... and they just watched the villagers interact. This is how Geertz
begins his visit in Bali. Geertz is an anthropologist and he is in Bali to
experience the culture. He and his wife are watching a cockfight take
place. Cockfights are illegal in Bali. They continue to watch the fight
and he describes the cockfight like any "layman" might see it. This way of
not interacting and seeing things from a spectators point of view, is in a
way using ethnocentrism. This means he isn't really seei ....
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