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The Cockfight : a casebook
- Title
- The Cockfight : a casebook / edited by Alan Dundes.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | SF503 .C68 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Dundes, Alan.
- Description
- x, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- ISBN
- 0299140504
- 0299140547 (pbck.)
- LCCN
- 93030545
- OCLC
- ocm28710883
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries