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"Deep Play: Notes On The Balinese Cockfight"
Beginning of Essay
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. .... Middle of Essay
.... 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 seeing the culture as
it is. From this view point the things which take place may even look
stupid. So, things like the cockfights can be seen only as wrong. At best,
their belief toward the cockfight is a disto ....
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