Flogging others : corporal punishment and cultural identity from antiquity to the present /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geltner, G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands : AUP, 2014.
Temas:
Flagellation > History.
Flagellation > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > General.
Flagellation
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches
  • Problems of Definition
  • Problems of Interpretation
  • 2. Punishing Bodies
  • Antiquity
  • Later Antiquity: Greece, Rome, and the Sassanian Empire
  • Religion and Corporal Punishment
  • Judaism
  • Islam
  • Christianity
  • Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  • Modernity to the Present.

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