ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Japanese Americans, Cockfight, Magic Realism
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Symbolic anthropology redux; entering the field and setting the scene: wrap up of geertz"s notes on a balinese cockfight . This is an example of geertz"s interpretive/symbolic anthropology because. The cockfight is so much more than the fight, it explains more than money being wagered, masculinity, egos, honor, and status is gambled. The men risk losing prestige: gabriel garcia marquez, no one writes to the colonel and magical realism, dorinne kondo, eye/i . Evoke the experience as she first entered the neighborhood. Rich descriptions- she wants to convey the environment, wants to involve the reader, foster a relationship between the reader and the space. A jumble of unfamiliar buildings when i first moved in, the tokyo neighborhood where i lived began to take on increasing familiarity and significance as impersonal facades gave way to home populated by friends and acquaintances.
