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" The cockfight : "
edited by Alan Dundes
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BL
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582208
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GB9477248b411427
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| Title & Author
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The cockfight : : a casebook /\ edited by Alan Dundes
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x, 290 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0299140504
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: 9780299140502
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: 0299140547
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: 9780299140540
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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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
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Cockfighting
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| Dewey Classification
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791.8
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SF503.C68 1994
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| Added Entry
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Dundes, Alan
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