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The Raid

The way I approached dissecting Clifford Geertz's "The Raid" was by reading it carefully over a few times while taking notes on the side. The first time I read the piece, I was very confused because of Geertz's choice of word. He often used the singular word "he" to make reference to the people of Bali as a whole. I was not wary of this the first time I read and was totally lost. Another element of the reading that I thought made the reading more difficult was Geertz's usage of references that was unknown to me. A few times in the reading he borrowed terms and ideas from his contemporaries such as Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. I have never read the work of these people and therefore unable to understand the deeper meaning.


Amidst all the blood, gore, and excitement of the fight the police sounded the siren and raided the fight. Being at the center of this much-condemned sport by the government, Geertz and his wife fled instinctively. This unfortunate event led them to be accepted into the lives of the Balinese. Geertz could've easily stayed and presented the police the paper work that shows he was a professor studying the culture there and could've been exempt from any charges. However in fleeing he proved to the villagers that he was no better than they are and that in fact he was one of them. " ...above all, everyone was extremely pleased and even surprise that we had not simply ' pulled out our papers'" " The next morning the village was completely different world for us." Such unfortunate event had

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