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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geltner, G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
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