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Bayou Country Bloodsport: The Culture of Cockfighting in Southern Louisiana
Current price:
$25.00
Publication Date: December 17th, 2013
Publisher:
McFarland & Company
ISBN:
9780786472475
Pages:
203
Description
Cockfighting has had a long history in the United States. Now outlawed in all 50 states, the violent sport serves as a springboard to discuss controversial leisure activities. The author's fieldwork, beginning before the ban of cockfighting and conducted mainly in South Louisiana, provides the basis for discussions of issues of society, sport, risk, spectatorship, culture, entertainment, recreation reform, gambling, and other "purple leisure" activities.