When one first looks at the two extracts of writing by, Clifford Geertz’s, Balinese Cockfight and Zora Hurston’s, Of Mules and men, one can easily fall victim to believing that Geertz piece is a more academic piece of ethnography, as it follows the basic and standard set up of how one would expect an ethnography by an anthropologist to be written out. This being the formula of: Man goes to a foreign land. Then, said man, observes and tries to partake in his surroundings with the locals. Until man finally writes up an analyse about his experience, whilst seamlessly constructing a line of argument throughout to prove his position of what it all meant. With Hurston however, the lines between fiction and academic writing seems to be blurred, and