Cockfight

divided into seven unique sections, which not only break down the concept of the cockfights in Bali but goes into more depth on the surrounding atmosphere of these cock fights. Geertz pays close attention to the fights, the people involved, their actions, and the reasoning behind them. In his study, Geertz mentions multiple levels of significance in which he talks about the different significant point of views of cockfights depending on the person and the situation. In this case, Geertz starts off by…

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…

ethnographical focus begins with a heart-beating pursue. Cockfights are illicit and the sudden appearance of the police amid one of the primary battles. Geertz and his better half saw everybody rushing home. In spite of being illicit, cockfighting is a boundless and very mainstream culture in Bali, according to "Profound Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" (1972). Geertz reports that the Balinese individuals profoundly hate creatures and all the more particularly articulations of creature…

superior or inferior to another. Anthropologist Clifford Geertz described culture as a “web of significance”—what he means by this is that culture is a semiotic concept. Culture, as seen by Geertz, is not “complexes of concrete behavior patterns” but as a set of control mechanisms. Culture cannot simply be explained through activities such as habits, traditions and values. Instead, culture can be explained through the rules that dictate how individuals interact through these activities. In Deep…

writer Alice Walker influenced a resurgence of Zora Neale Hurston’s publications on the Black American experience in the South. Hurston was a Boasian, a student of Franz Boas during the 1920s, whose contributions to the discipline of anthropology had been long forgotten. These anthropologists came to the forefront of the anthropological discussions of the 1970s despite their very different approaches to fieldwork and writing about their work. This paper seeks to analyze the ethnographic work of…

their traditions and way of life. Clifford Geertz's Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight manifests the notion that cultures possess rituals that are implicit, resulting in anthropologists attempting to interpret the importance of customs embedded in specific cultures. In the article, it is emphasized that cockfight is one of the significant rituals in the Balinese culture. While being perceived as a simple activity within the community, it holds a much complex meaning that is distinct to…

In correspondence with gambling in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Virginia, bets, sometimes large and sometimes small, were placed between men over cocks and were taken gravely. Clifford Geertz, in “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” describes, “the more [money] one risks the more of a lot of other things, such as one’s pride, one’s poise, one’s dispassion, one’s masculinity, one also risks.” Like the Virginians, more than money was on the line when betting.…

several rounds to a paper target. The worst case could have him shoot several rounds to live targets – in other words, live people. The same applies to Clifford Geertz’s, “The Balinese Cockfight.” In Geertz’s essay, he emphasizes, “For it is only apparently cocks that are fighting there. Actually, it is men” (554). The first sentence is described as what is literally happening in a Balinese Cockfight. The second sentence goes in depth of what is mentally happening. What a normal person would see…

Destruction comes in many different forms. In Nathanael West’s novel The Day of the Locust, destruction is a common theme that occurs throughout the course of the novel. The main character, Tod Hackett, paints a picture depicting the destruction of Hollywood and the world of film. Tod’s vulgar fantasies about Faye demonstrate the destruction of one’s mind, body and spirit. The bloody cockfight demonstrates the destruction of humanity. The decay of morals and values eventually leads to the…

same underlying concepts like violence and idolization. Looking into Clifford Geertz article on Balinese cockfighting entitled, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”, one can see the similarities that a now under privileged nation on the rise, such as Bali, has when we look at America, a more economically and progressively better off country, and our relations to American football. American football, being one of the greatest sports in America is a sport that is nationally loved and…