In “Deep Play,” Clifford Geertz tells of his travels to the wondrous province of Bali. “Early in April of 1958, my wife and I arrived, malarial and diffident, in a Balinese village we intended, as anthropologists, to study” (305). Geertz’ goals were to study the culture by becoming welcome in the village, and to write a book about the Balinese for others to learn from (308). “Getting caught, or almost caught, in a vice raid is perhaps not a very generalizable recipe for achieving that mysterious necessity of anthropological field work, rapport, but for me it worked very well. It led to a sudden and unusually complete acceptance into a society extremely dif
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