READ:
Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1977: 412-53. (OCRA)
Highly recommended:
John Emigh, "Culture, Killings, Criticism in the Year of Living Dangerously: Bali and Baliology." In The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies, ed. Tracy C. Davis. Cambridge University Press, 2008: 60-75. (OCRA)
Recommended: Vincent Crapanzano’s essay “Hermes’ Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description.” In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ed. James Clifford and George E. Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press: 51-76.
Reading response question:
1. Why, according to Geertz, do these “entertainments” exist? What is the general or main argument of his essay? Find at least one point that you would consider KEY to the general argument of the essay and, citing Geertz, say, briefly, why the point you have selected is key to his broader argument.
If you read the recommended essay, feel free to write your response as follows: What is John Emigh's main point in critiquing Geertz as he does? After reading the critique, what remains useful from the Geertz? 
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