Essays Tagged: "Cockfight"
Cockfighting as a Way of Reading Balinese Culture in Geertz's "Deep Play"
AUB 102bAnca CosteaProfessor: Clifford HallamDate Due: February 23Cockfighting as a Way of Reading Balinese Culture in Geertz's "Deep Play""A community can be read as ... be read as a text." Claude Lévi-StraussClifford Geertz, in Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, (p. 224) argues that the cockfights are a "Balinese reading of Balinese experience, a sto ... of Balinese experience, a story they tell themselves about themselves." These events are not simply cockfights, but can be seen as a narrative "saying something about something." Geertz's analysis of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays