| Description |
1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cockfighting.
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Cockfighting. |
| Indexed Term |
Cockfighting |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dundes, Alan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cockfight. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1994 9780299140540 (DLC) 93030545 (OCoLC)28710883 |
| ISBN |
9780299140533 (electronic book) |
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0299140539 (electronic book) |
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1282788175 |
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9781282788176 |
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0299140504 |
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9780299140502 |
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0299140547 (pbck.) |
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9780299140540 (pbck.) |
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