“Bringing a cock to an important fight was, for an adult male, a compulsory duty of citizenship.”
The field of anthropology is often misunderstood for its legitimist reasoning, by the people whom are being studied. Ethnography is only one form of research performed by anthropologist; although named at times the most difficult to conduct for its many varying reasons that have to do with studying a persons life up close. The Balinese cockfight is only one extraordinary example of this. Author of “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”, Clifford Geertz, and his wife arrived in a small Balinese village in hopes to conduct ethnographic fieldwork as they had throughout their whole careers. Geertz and his wife were professionals, who knew that each study would be different from the last, and this was what they were in search of, differences. Immediately upon arrival a feeling of unwelcome had overcome the two anthropologists. Every Balinese citizen was ignoring Geertz and his wife, almost as if they were not present, or not human. After almost two weeks of being invisible in Bali, a crowd immersed in a downtown square and a Cockfight begun. In Bali, cockfights are illegal, yet still practiced very frequently. The cockfight takes place …show more content…
• At what point in a Balinese male life is the cockfight introduced?
• How is the cockfight introduced to young children? At what age?
• Why does the Balinese culture continue with cockfights if they are illegal?
• What is the female view on cockfighting in Bali?
• Why can women not be in view of the spurs when sharpened?
• How has male dominance evolved/developed over the past century in Bali? In Canada?
• What Canadian tradition does cockfighting mirror?
• How is Canadian society structured?
• Who is at the top of the hierarchy in Canadian
The field of anthropology is often misunderstood for its legitimist reasoning, by the people whom are being studied. Ethnography is only one form of research performed by anthropologist; although named at times the most difficult to conduct for its many varying reasons that have to do with studying a persons life up close. The Balinese cockfight is only one extraordinary example of this. Author of “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”, Clifford Geertz, and his wife arrived in a small Balinese village in hopes to conduct ethnographic fieldwork as they had throughout their whole careers. Geertz and his wife were professionals, who knew that each study would be different from the last, and this was what they were in search of, differences. Immediately upon arrival a feeling of unwelcome had overcome the two anthropologists. Every Balinese citizen was ignoring Geertz and his wife, almost as if they were not present, or not human. After almost two weeks of being invisible in Bali, a crowd immersed in a downtown square and a Cockfight begun. In Bali, cockfights are illegal, yet still practiced very frequently. The cockfight takes place …show more content…
• At what point in a Balinese male life is the cockfight introduced?
• How is the cockfight introduced to young children? At what age?
• Why does the Balinese culture continue with cockfights if they are illegal?
• What is the female view on cockfighting in Bali?
• Why can women not be in view of the spurs when sharpened?
• How has male dominance evolved/developed over the past century in Bali? In Canada?
• What Canadian tradition does cockfighting mirror?
• How is Canadian society structured?
• Who is at the top of the hierarchy in Canadian