The cockfight : a casebook / edited by Alan Dundes.
1994
SF503 .C68 1994eb
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Title
The cockfight : a casebook / edited by Alan Dundes.
ISBN
9780299140533 (electronic bk.)
0299140539 (electronic bk.)
1282788175
9781282788176
9786612788178
6612788178
0299140504
9780299140502
0299140547 (pbck.)
9780299140540 (pbck.)
0299140539 (electronic bk.)
1282788175
9781282788176
9786612788178
6612788178
0299140504
9780299140502
0299140547 (pbck.)
9780299140540 (pbck.)
Imprint
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1994.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
SF503 .C68 1994eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)669497242
Summary
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 sexual implications of the sport.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Cockfight. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1994
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