Balinese Cockfight Analysis

webs as culture. The analysis of culture according to Geertz is not an experimental science in search of laws but the analysis of this type of understanding of culture is more interpretative one (Moore and Sanders, 2006:236). Geertz says it is more important to understand what gestures stand for,

perform cross-cultural comparisons. The essay "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" is written by a well respected anthropologist by the name of Clifford Geertz, who details his observations of the Balinese culture. Geertz was a professor at Princeton and received his Ph.D. from Harvard, as well as publishing several successful books in the field of anthropology. Geertz's essay presents a study and analysis on the Balinese culture through the male's obsessive affiliation

Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”. In his essay, he attempts to give insights on the Balinese culture and mainly focusing on the significance of Balinese cockfights within the Balinese culture. Throughout this paper, first, I will briefly summarize Geertz’s essay, then, I will discuss his use of ethnographic fieldwork and ethnocentrism in Bali and how it led him to the discovery of the Balinese culture. Finally, I will discuss cockfights and their meaning and significance within the Balinese culture.

Report #2 Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight” *Answers to Reading Report question are intended to guide your explorations for your essay. Each answer should be a paragraph length (about 5-6 sentences). 1. How is this essay constructed? Describe the parts of the piece (and how many, etc.) Provide brief descriptions of the work that each part is doing and how it goes about doing it. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” is divided into eight or nine sections, each with

while examining the webs of significance in the Balinese gendered spaces and relationships. She also uses ideas previously discussed by Sherry Ortner in the realm of feminist anthropology. Ortner discussed ideas such as gender hegemonies and the problem with using “women” as an analytic category. Jennaway draws upon these ideas when looking at how the ideology of gender parity

Those kind of discriminations are what Taylor calls ‘strong evaluation’; the evaluation not only for “the objects in the light of our desires, but also the desires themselves” (Ibid, p.66). The strong evaluation as well as the subject-referring imports as a basis of such evaluation are strongly affective on human beings and their respective lives. To evaluate and classify into good/bad, higher/lower, or any other categories means to identify “what it is we really are about, what is really important

Variations in Symbolic Anthropology After centuries of continuous and unresolved (though not fruitless) debate by many great theorists on how the scientific method should be applied to anthropology, a method was formulated that promised to finally put the debate to rest: just don’t apply them at all. Symbolic Anthropologists advocated the use of “a variety of tools from psychology, history, and literature” to conduct their anthropology (McGee and Warms 2004:525). The work of Sapir and Whorf

Members of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World by Lawrence Otis Graham is a perfect example of social imagination, the ability to link personal troubles with public issues that requires a particular level of consciousness from the individual (Graham, 1995). Graham describes his experience at Princeton University, a journey that enabled him to identify personal ties with larger issues of racism despite coming from an upper middle class background and previous experience ‘successfully’

Exam Review: TERMS Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people. Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture. Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture

From my research I discovered three conflicting themes, and my theory behind these themes is based upon structural analysis. This ethnography will also reveal some of the methodological questions discussed in class, specifically, replicability, critical dialogue, reflexivity, and globalization. Interestingly, I found a way to connect three out of the four methodological