Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight by Clifford Geertz

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz's article first appeared in his most famous book, culture interpretation as a separate work at Garage and Ad Marginem Press. It was published in Minima series.

Deep Play is a study on Bali's cockfight tradition based on a one-year anthropological study of Geertz in the late 1950s, and he and his wife lived in Bali, but illegal but very popular cockfight Participating in and interviewing. People

Using the method of heavy description (the term introduced by philosopher Gilbert Lyle), Geertz inscribed the phenomenon of cockfighting as a cultural phenomenon representing "social matrix simulation" in a detailed context, and is obvious Not reveal hierarchies. Through society. For example, women, young people, socially disadvantaged groups are not allowed to participate in cockfighting but the main participants are most respected and politically involved in the community I am a member. The actual struggle is mankind entrusted to animals, the winners are respected and admired by others, and money (Geertz describes the complex betting system in detail) is secondary. Just like the West, the Balinese cock symbolizes masculinity, and the rule of cockfighting in each village is handed down along with other legal traditions.

Based on extensive observations and interviews, Geertz concluded that cockfighting as a cultural phenomenon would provide rich anthropological data for the interpretation of the Balinese society. For locals, cockfighting is also a tool for self-analysis and a way to introduce culture to outsiders. However, Geertz reminds us that winning and losing can not actually change the participant's social position in the struggle, but it is still a metaphor of the real success of failure.

Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) is an American anthropologist and sociologist and widely writes about traditional culture and religion in Southeast Asia and North America. His research focuses on the symbolic aspects of group activities (tradition, ceremonies, celebrations, social movements) and informs them about the worldview and ethics. Geertz is one of the most influential people in anthropology. He is the author of religion as a series of famous articles, religion as a cultural system, ideology of cultural system, art of culture system, and common sense of cultural system.

Clifford Geertz "Deep Game: Memo on Balinese Battle Chicken", probably one of the most widely read anthropological papers, is available online in standard HTML format and PDF files. The popularity of this work continues mainly due to Geertz's fluent prose, sharp observation, and humor that loses pride. However, I think that the true appeal of this article is that readers are fascinated by the process of anthropological discovery.

"Deep Game: Notes on Battle Fighting Chicken" is one of the most influential articles of Clifford Gates, not only the meaning of a specific cultural phenomenon, but also the cockfight in Bali and Gates It also shows interpretation. Group text Please read by anthropologist. Geertz showed that Bali's cockfight as cultural text reflects at least the true meaning of Bali. Despite being illegal, at least "Deep Game: Notes on Battle Battle Chicken" (1972), cockfighting is a common and very popular phenomenon in Bali. Geertz reports that people in Bali are deeply fed up with the expression of behavior of animals, especially animals.

The subsequent "recursive" ethnographic magazine improved the skills to translate cultural differences by expressing the impact on ethnographic journalists. Noteworthy examples are deep play: Clifford Gates's Balinese cockfight note, Paul Rabinot's Morocco fieldwork, Jean-Paul Dumont's Headman and I, and Vincent Cla Panzano's Tuhami. In the 1980 's, rhetorical studies of ethnographic magazines were studied rigorously in that field under the general influence of literary theory and post colonial / post structured thought. Kim Fortun: Shamanism on the Roadside, Colonialism and Michael Towsig Savage, Michael FJ Fischer and Mehdi Abedi Controversy Muslims, including Kathleen Stewart Space, show that after Bhopal's propaganda "experimental" of discipline fermentation Ethnic magazine revealed