The Cockfight

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299140540

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The Cockfight by Alan Dundes Pdf

Originating more than 2500 years ago, cockfighting is one of the oldest documented sports in the world. It has continued to flourish despite bans against it in many countries. In The Cockfight: A Casebook, folklorist Alan Dundes brings together a diverse array of writing on this male-dominated ritual. Vivid descriptions of cockfights from Puerto Rico, Tahiti, Ireland, Spain, Brazil, and the Philippines complement critical commentaries, from the fourth-century reflections of St. Augustine to contemporary anthropological and psychoanalytic interpretations. The various essays discuss the intricate rules of the cockfight, the ethical question of pitting two equally matched roosters in a fight to the death, the emotional involvement of cockfighters and fans, and the sexual implications of the sport. The result is an enlightening collection for anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, and psychologists, as well as followers of this ancient blood sport.

Author : MARIA. FERNANDA AMPUERO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910312819

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Cockfight by MARIA. FERNANDA AMPUERO Pdf

In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family's maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped re-enacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.

Author : Michele Wucker
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466867888

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Why the Cocks Fight by Michele Wucker Pdf

Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.

Author : Arch Ruport
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781446548035

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The Art of Cockfighting by Arch Ruport Pdf

This is the story of Cockfighting and how it is practised in certain parts of the World where it is still legal. In Britain it has been a forbidden sport for more than 150 years, although it is said that in country parts, that it ceased much later than that time. Many people keep Game Fowl purely for interest and this book is reissued in the hope that many of the sections relating to the history, feeding, conditioning and other aspects of keeping these birds will be of great interest. Contents Include: History Selection of a Strain, Basic Strains, The Hen Breeding and Breeding Systems The House Caring for Brood Fowl Rearing Game Chickens, Stages in the Life History of a Gamecock Dubbing Stags The Farm Walk Coop Walks, Movable and Stationary Getting Ready for Battle Trimming out for Battle Six Good Keeps Conditioning Powders and Drugs Tools of the Trade Gaffs Heeling Cocks for Battle In the Pit Handling and Nursing in the Pit The Referee After the Battle Methods of Conducting Cockfights

Author : C. A. Finsterbusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cockfighting
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067999502

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Cock Fighting All Over the World by C. A. Finsterbusch Pdf

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465093564

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The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz Pdf

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

Author : L. Bryce Boyer,Ruth M. Boyer,Stephen M. Sonnenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135827595

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The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18 by L. Bryce Boyer,Ruth M. Boyer,Stephen M. Sonnenberg Pdf

Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).

Author : Larry May,Stacey Hoffman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742574021

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Collective Responsibility by Larry May,Stacey Hoffman Pdf

This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two important questions: What collective efforts could have prevented these large-scale social harms? And is some group to blame and, if so, how is blame to be apportioned? Contributors:

Author : Mordecai Marcus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544182806

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CliffsNotes on West's Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of The Locust by Mordecai Marcus Pdf

This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

Author : Francesca Leoni,Mika Natif
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Islamic art
ISBN : 1409464385

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Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art by Francesca Leoni,Mika Natif Pdf

Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume offers new insights and methodological models that extend our understanding of erotic and sexual subjects in the Islamic tradition. The essays shed light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the motivations underlying their production, and on the responses generated by their circulation.

Author : Brian Moeran
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730755

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Ethnography in the Raw by Brian Moeran Pdf

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. The book links detailed descriptions of his Philippine family with cultural practices such as circumcision, marriage and cockfights combined with theoretical musings on the concepts of sacrifice, social exchange, patron-client relations, food, and religious symbolism. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Author : Richard Hyland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190451158

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Gifts by Richard Hyland Pdf

Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation of gifts ever attempted. Gift-giving is everywhere governed by social and customary norms before it encounters the law and the giving of gifts takes place largely outside of the marketplace. As a result of these two characteristics, the law of gifts provides an optimal lens through which to examine how different legal systems engage with social practice. The law of gifts is well-developed both in the civil and the common laws. Richard Hyland's study provides an excellent view of the ways in which different civil and common law jurisdictions confront common issues. The legal systems discussed include principally, in the common law, those of Great Britain, the United States, and India, and, in the civil law, the private law systems of Belgium and France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Professor Hyland also serves a critique of the dominant method in the field, which is a form of functionalism based on what is called the praesumptio similitudinis, namely the axiom that, once legal doctrine is stripped away, developed legal systems tend to reach similar practical results. His study demonstrates, to the contrary, that legal systems actually differ, not only in their approach and conceptual structure, but just as much in the results.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Bernhard Giesen,Jason L. Mast
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139452670

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Social Performance by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Bernhard Giesen,Jason L. Mast Pdf

Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin, Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal to scholars and students alike.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Balinese (Indonesian people)
ISBN : OCLC:29334682

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Deep Play by Clifford Geertz Pdf

Author : R. A. A Lover of the Sport
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539174751

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The Royal Past Time of Cock Fighting by R. A. A Lover of the Sport Pdf

This special re-print edition of the famous work "The Royal Past Time of Cock Fighting" is a facsimile of one of the earliest English language books ever written on Game Fowl and cock fighting. Written in 1709 by an individual identified only as "R.H., A Lover of the Sport," this very rare book was later reprinted in a numbered limited edition of only one hundred copies in May of 1899. This special reprint was created utilizing one of the very few surviving copies of that special 1899 facsimile edition. Subtitled "the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting and Curing cocks of the Game. Published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that Royal, and War-like Sport," this interesting historic title offers a very rare look at Game Fowl breeding and the sport of cock fighting as it was practiced in England over three hundred years ago. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background. This book is presented as part of large series of educational material on the history and raising of numerous chicken breeds. The material presented herein contains information on the sport of cock fighting and is intended to be strictly for educational purposes with the purpose of enlightening Game Fowl breeders about the history of their breed. Publication of the material is neither an endorsement, nor a criticism of its contents.