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The cockfight : a casebook /
A folklorist brings together 18 accounts of the controversial male-dominated ritual of cockfighting, discussing 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 sexu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A barnyard cockfight of the fourth century / St. Augustine
- A cock fight from the Ming Dynasty / Yuan Hung-tao
- The rules of cockfighting / Jim Harris
- A London cockpit and its frequenters / Pierce Egan
- Cock-fighting in Puerto Rico / William Dinwiddie
- A cockfight in Tahiti / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
- California cockfight / Nathanael West
- An Irish cockfight / Michael O'Gormon
- The birds of death / Giles Tippette
- The fraternity of cockfighters : ethical embellishments of an illegal sport / Charles H. McCaghy and Arthur G. Neal
- Questions from a study of cockfighting / Laurin A. Wollan, Jr.
- Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz
- Cock or bull : cockfighting, social structure and political commentary in the Philippines / Scott Guggenheim
- The cockfight in Andalusia, Spain : images of the truly male / Garry Marvin
- Zooanthropology of the cockfight in Martinique / Francis Affergan
- The gaucho cockfight in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Ondina Fachel Leal
- Cockfighting on the Venezuelan Island of Margarita : a ritualized form of male aggression / H.B. Kimberley Cook
- Gallus as Phallus : a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play / Alan Dundes.