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Flogging Others : Corporal Punishment and Cultural Identity from Antiquity to the Present /
Corporal punishment is often considered a relic of the Western past, a set of thinly veiled barbaric practices largely abandoned in the process of civilization. As G. Geltner argues, however, the infliction of bodily pain was not necessarily typical for earlier societies, nor has it vanished from mo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches
- 2. Punishing Bodies
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- List of Illustrations
- Works Cited
- Index