This week’s lesson focused on Clifford Geertz. For some miraculous reason, in this lesson my confusion from the previous week seemed to have disappeared. Everything seemed to fall into place, and the lesson had meaning. I found Geertz views on tradition such as cockfighting very interesting. It made me re-think different cultural traditions that involves violence with the participation of animals i.e. Balinese cockfighting, Spanish bull fighting.
Issues discussed in today’s lecture were:
· Traditional Balinese society
· Language and metaphor
· ‘Deep play’
· Cockfighting and modernity
· And points of interpretation
The reasons for cockfighting was highlighted within the lesson, one of which was that the Balinese men use it as an escape from their wives; their own hostility of violence is channelled into the cockfighting – a way to vent their anger. The cock is used almost a scapegoat for the women, thus lowering the rate of potential domestic violence
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