Cockfighting as a Way of Reading Balinese Culture in Geertz's "Deep Play"
Date Submitted: 06/19/2004 20:46:21
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1278 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1278 words)
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…sing his argument on the Freud's first model of Judgment - what we want we incorporate.
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)
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