Mad Dogs Englishmen And The Errant Anthropologist Analysis

While reading Raybeck’s “Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the errant anthropologist,” something that really sparked my mind about the similarities and differences of their culture compared to ours, is the deviant activities of the Kelantanese. Some of their ways of doing things that are frowned upon are different in our culture. In this paper I will discuss three similarities and differences from the Kelantanese culture to the western culture. I will talk about the similarities first.

To begin with I should state that I am going to talk about the deviant activities between our culture and theirs. There are many things that both cultures do that are similar. First, something that is both illegal in our culture, and theirs in prostitution. Prostitution

Another similarity between the two cultures is having a judge make a decision about a certain law that has been broken. In the book it says, “However, the Kelantanese had a relationship to the state and nation that was distinctive, and that helped to color their attitudes toward behavior that violated external laws. As elsewhere, judgments of deviance depend heavily upon who is judging.” In our culture it happens some what the same. Someone breaks a law they have the right to go to court, in front of a judge and plead their case. The amount of punishment that a kelantanese villager will receive is strictly determined who is judging the crime that was committed. Like the Kelantanese, punishment of the breaking the law is strictly based on what the judge and jury decide in court. Lastly, when talking about similarities between the two cultures is how deviant activities occur without police doing anything about them. In the Kelantan culture cockfighting very popular. It is a very good activity that most villagers make their money from. In the book it says that most police know about his going on, but can’t do anything about unless they know the location the event is occurring. When thinking about I realized

In the book it says that according to the Islam religion that the Kelantan people follow alcohol is illegal. In our culture, some religions might say it is illegal, but for the most part it isn’t. In our culture, alcohol is popular. For example, most churches in our culture have communion and the drink wine, which is alcohol, to represent Jesus’ blood. Another difference is that in the Kelantanese culture the people in the village are very law-abiding, which means that breaking the law is very rare. Here in our country it isn’t the same. Everyday we hear about crimes being committed all across the United States. The kelantan are very trustworthy and very few serious crimes are committed. In the book it says, “My friends and acquaintances game me to believe that Kelantanese were among the most law-abiding and proper individuals on the planet. No one drank, gambled, fooled around, or, it seemed, even spoke ill of others.” That statement really shows the the Kelantan are very committed to not breaking any laws in their culture. The final difference I found between the two cultures is that in the Kelantanese everyone is trustworthy when they see a deviant act being pursued. In the book it states, “Villagers engaged in similar deviance at a shared locale were unlikely to inform on one another partly due to bonds of solidarity and partly because doing so would