Download e-book for kindle: Bayou Country Bloodsport: The Culture of Cockfighting in by Jon Griffin Donlon

By Jon Griffin Donlon

ISBN-10: 0786472472

ISBN-13: 9780786472475

Cockfighting has had a protracted heritage within the usa. Now outlawed in all 50 states, the violent game serves as a springboard to debate arguable relaxation actions. The author’s fieldwork, starting sooner than the ban of cockfighting and carried out customarily in South Louisiana, presents the foundation for discussions of problems with society, game, probability, spectatorship, tradition, leisure, sport reform, playing, and different “purple rest” activities.

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