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The cockfight : a casebook /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dundes, Alan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1994]
Subjects:
Cockfighting.
Cockfighting
Table of 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.