Deep Pockets: Notes on the Indonesian cockfight in a globalizing world
Authors
John Lindquist
Abstract
When anthropologists Clifford and Hildred Ceertz arrived in a small village on Bali in the late 1950s, they were outsiders. It was, Clifford Geetz wrote, 'as though we were not there. For them, and to a degree for ourselves, we were non-persons, specters, invisible men' (1973:412). Things changed ten days later when they visited their first cockfight.
