Deep Play:Notes on the BAlinese cockfight

Anthropology is the study of human beings. Some of the work that anthropologists does is to observe and analyze the human culture. Anthropology has been important for hundreds of years, describing unknown cultures and explaining their histories. There is a lot of blindness in the way “civilized” people first look at people of other cultures. This is illustrated in Clifford Geertz’s essay, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight.”
Anthropologists have many skills that they need to get accurate information about what they are studying. A lot of observation is involved in all areas of studying for anthropologists, as shown by Geertz, as he travels to a foreign country and studies the life of the Balinese people. Anthropologists are not only scientists who study humans, and the goals of anthropology are shared by other disciplines within the social, behavioral, and biological sciences. While Geertz is in Bali, he studies all these areas.
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