In the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego and id, the creative power of aroused masculinity and the destructive power of loosened animality fuse in a bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death. Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science - Seite 45von Mark Turner Professor of English and Member of the Doctoral Faculty in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science University of Maryland - 2001 - 192 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Peggy Reeves Sanday - 1981 - 320 Seiten
...primordial equation of maleness with animality, destruction, and the like. According to Geertz (1973:420-1), "in the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death." Normally, these temperamental proclivities are not acted out. Geertz notes, however, that they are... | |
| Jeffrey C. Alexander - 1987 - 410 Seiten
...of interworking themes we are given a litany of indeterminate lists. I can find at least three: (1) "In the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death" (p. 420). (2) "[The cockfight] catches up these themes — death, masculinity, rage, pride, loss, beneficence,... | |
| William Beers - 1992 - 228 Seiten
...fears, hates, and ambivalence being what it is, is fascinated by — 'The Powers of Darkness'" (420). "In the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty', violence, and death" (420-21). While this is one of the better anthropological definitions of sacrifice, the psychological... | |
| C. Behan McCullagh - 1998 - 344 Seiten
...experiences, meanings, intentions, motivations, dispositions, and understandings. He writes, for example: In the cockfight man and beast, good and evil, ego...destructive power of loosened animality fuse in a blood drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death. It is little wonder that when, as is the invariable... | |
| Lawrence A. Wenner - 1998 - 360 Seiten
...cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego and id, and creative power of aroused masculinity and destructive power of loosened animality fuse in a...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death" (p. 658). Geertz's "thick description" of the fight emphasizes the dramatic aspects of deep play: "The... | |
| Page Smith, Charles Daniel - 2000 - 398 Seiten
...appropriate chants and oblations, to the demons in order to pacify their ravenous, cannibal hunger. ... In the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death." Balinese describe heaven and hell as the states of the man whose cock has just won or lost a fight.... | |
| Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, Ana M. López - 2000 - 687 Seiten
...irán al cielo (All Poets are Saints and Will Go to Heaven) (1983). MIGUEL A.CARDÍNALE cockfights 'In the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death.' Clifford Geertz's synthesis, based on his work in Bali, has universal application. It applies too,... | |
| Page Smith, Charles Daniel - 2000 - 398 Seiten
...appropriate chants and oblations, to the demons in order to pacify their ravenous, cannibal hunger. ... In the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death." Balinese describe heaven and hell as the states of the man whose cock has just won or lost a fight.... | |
| Michael Martin - 282 Seiten
...cockfight man and beast, good and evil, ego and id. the creative powers of aroused masculinity and destructive power of loosened animality fuse in a...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty, violence, and death. 26 However, Roseberry's social organization and commentary interpretation also find support there for... | |
| Norman K. Denzin - 2001 - 210 Seiten
...description. Geertz 11973a1 is discussing the moral and symbolic significance of the cockfight in Bali: 1n the cockfight, man and beast, good and evil, ego and...bloody drama of hatred, cruelty. violence, and death. 1pp. 420,4211 1n the next passage, Geertz describes the cockfight: Most of the time, in any case, the... | |
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