![]() ![]() Cockfighting is a fight for statues, with bets serving only to symbolize the risk. With bets fairly even in the case of a deep fights, financial gain is not the center of the event, but rather everything which is expressed in the concept of "status". In the case of the Balinese cockfight, a deep fight is one in which results are unpredictable, the odds are more even and the bets are more balanced. Following Bentham, Geertz defines a "deep fight" is one in which the stakes are so high the people lose their rationality. Geertz distinguishes "deep fights", with high wages, and "shallow fights", usually with low wages of both gambling and prestige. ![]() Although gambling is a major and central part of the Balinese cockfight, Geertz argues that what is at stake is much more fundamental than just money, namely, prestige and status. ![]()
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