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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 381–383.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Charles H. Egan The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight . By Robert Joe Cutter . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 1989 . xiii, 255 pp. $28.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 381 ensuring...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 380–381.
Published: 01 May 1991
... will set the standard for future debate on civil-military relations. JUNE TEUFEL DREYER University of Miami, Coral Gables The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight. By R O B E R T J O E C U T T E R . Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1989. xiii, 255 pp. $28.00. This unusual book brings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 735–742.
Published: 01 August 1985
...? For Geertz, the concern of the anthropologist is with "formulating sociological principles" and not simply with "reading" cultural forms for their own sake, or, in his words, with "promoting or appreciating cockfights" (p. 448). "Rather," he notes, "the question is, what does one learn about [sociological...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 418.
Published: 01 May 1962
... questions Because of this same complexity, the critical space allotted the cockfight entertainments of reader may overlook the author's repetitious- Alejandro Roces or the political speeches of ness and his failure to schematize events and Raul Manglapus. Personal affection seems mo- their implications...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 881–882.
Published: 01 August 1985
... roles for home, school, work, and the temple. Motor-sensory skills grow, while age- and sex-prescriptions develop: for example, "Pick the Pieces," equivalent to "Jacks," demanding dexterity and patience, is played by girls; "Cockfight," a roughand-tumble game, is played by boys. Adult behavior...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 740–741.
Published: 01 August 1993
... are not always so entangled in symbols of sex, snakes, and semen, and later chapters take us into arenas less highly charged but, I believe, more revealing. Local wrestling tournaments, for example, provide a neat contrast with the cockfights in Clifford Geertz's Bali: whereas the Balinese events affirm, those...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 793–794.
Published: 01 August 2000
...). Inheritors of a tradition shaped during colonial times, the sugar workers are left to gamble endlessly at card games and cockfights, betting and hoping to win, subjected yet complicit (agency obliges!) in the concomitant acceptance and rejection of their social and historical fate. In addition to being...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 383–384.
Published: 01 May 1991
... too broad and too narrow: too broad in that the attempt to cover 2,500 years of material means that each period is handled in a somewhat cursory manner; and too narrow in that the decision to trace cockfighting references while omitting material on other entertainments deprives us of a rounded picture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 728–729.
Published: 01 August 1991
... Tuu children often play at torturing or killing insects and small animals; children and adults alike find enjoyment in cockfights and violent horse duels. Broch concludes that these practices represent displaced aggression that serves as an outlet for emotions which otherwise have no sanctioned...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 417–418.
Published: 01 May 1962
.... reasonable and short. In the presence of such figures, one questions Because of this same complexity, the critical space allotted the cockfight entertainments of reader may overlook the author's repetitious- Alejandro Roces or the political speeches of ness and his failure to schematize events and Raul...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 748–749.
Published: 01 May 1972
... . . . I 'waylaid' people in the streets, button-holed them in restaurants, and abused their hospitality at home . . . I stood sponsor to weddings and baptismals. . . . I lost good money on horses and cockfights and mah-jongg because of pakikfsama (deep sense of camaraderie). This was, indeed, a promising...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 749–750.
Published: 01 May 1972
... for the author, a former newspaper man, wrote that In compiling this book . . . I 'waylaid' people in the streets, button-holed them in restaurants, and abused their hospitality at home . . . I stood sponsor to weddings and baptismals. . . . I lost good money on horses and cockfights and mah-jongg because...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 418–419.
Published: 01 May 1962
...; Gregorio Brillantes' urban, period of sovereignty would have to be both middle class Catholics. reasonable and short. In the presence of such figures, one questions Because of this same complexity, the critical space allotted the cockfight entertainments of reader may overlook the author's repetitious...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 November 1983
... as cockfights do in Bali: as an image of what it feels like to play politics (see pp. 15ff as a kind of distilled essence of Afghan political culture. It is a metaphor of a common Afghan political experience. This game, played for fun in the north, mostly by non-Pushtuns, has been transformed by the government...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (2): 210–212.
Published: 01 February 1953
... unorthodox criticism of the Confucian classics Shib ching (V 11) and Erh ya (VI 6). There are descriptions of edible animals of South China (VI 17, VI 20), his home in Ch'ang-an (VII 22), a polo game (III 5), a cockfight (VIII 3); accounts of contemporary events, such as the rebellions of Yang Huilin and Liu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 869–871.
Published: 01 August 1980
... to live in the government house and for investing in a sugar estate. His impressions of Negros were published in 1891. They consist of his views on everything from agriculture and architecture through civil guards, cockfights, fish corrals, geography, haciendas, laborers (permanent and migratory), locusts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 741–743.
Published: 01 August 1993
.... Local wrestling tournaments, for example, provide a neat contrast with the cockfights in Clifford Geertz's Bali: whereas the Balinese events affirm, those in India undermine because they focus "attention on the ideological inverse of caste hierarchy by positing the individual as a social fact" (p. 197...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (2): 212–214.
Published: 01 February 1953
...); his unorthodox criticism of the Confucian classics Shib ching (V 11) and Erh ya (VI 6). There are descriptions of edible animals of South China (VI 17, VI 20), his home in Ch'ang-an (VII 22), a polo game (III 5), a cockfight (VIII 3); accounts of contemporary events, such as the rebellions of Yang...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 125–143.
Published: 01 May 2023
... , 2004 ) and constructs the values of relationality with more-than-humans. Similar to horse racing (Cassidy 2002 ), greyhound racing (McEwan and Skandakumar 2011 ), bullfighting (Marvin 1988 ; Thompson 2010 ), fox hunting (Marvin 2003 ), and cockfighting (Geertz 1973 ; Kavesh 2021b ; Dundes 1994...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 794–797.
Published: 01 August 2000
... are indeed "unlucky players in the game of life" (p. 228). Inheritors of a tradition shaped during colonial times, the sugar workers are left to gamble endlessly at card games and cockfights, betting and hoping to win, subjected yet complicit (agency obliges!) in the concomitant acceptance and rejection...
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