It’s all fun and games till they bring in electronic scoring
10 o'clock, June 24, 2005
As long as the Almighty permits intelligent men, created in His image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it is not for me to deprive the chicken of the same privilege.
I’m sure I read Clifford Geertz’ “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” at some point in college. But isn’t it about time we had a Balinese anthropologist come to Louisiana or Oklahoma or New Mexico for a little ‘writing back to the center?’ In fact, if it ever gets off the ground, how about a Balinese documentary on Gamecock Boxing?
While not an anthropologist, Burkhard Bilger does write about cockfighting in Louisiana in "Enter the Chicken" (collected in Noodling for Flatheads and the source of the Lincoln quotation).