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Deep Play in a Poker Rally: A Sunday among the Ferraristi of Long IslandUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro This article provides a narrative account of a "poker rally" conducted by Ferrari owners and enthusiasts on Long Island, New York. Evoking Clifford Geertzs treatment of a Balinese cockfight, the author uses this elite event to interpret this ritual drama experientially and textually, thus offering a reading of Ferrari culture and of some persistent problems associated, ever since Geertzs essay, with narrative ethnography.
Key Words: Ferrari culture poker rally narrative ethnography Jeremy Bentham Clifford Geertz
Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 5,
731-766 (2004) |
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