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Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight – An Ethnographic Analysis
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420 words
This essay discusses Clifford Geertz's ethnography "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." The author uses the cockfight as a window into understanding Balinese culture more broadly, discussing themes of religion and ritual, government and corruption, and the village as a super-organism.
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