LEADER 03468nam 22005892 450 001 9910459780403321 005 20201217154709.0 010 $a90-485-2595-0 010 $a90-485-2594-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048525942 035 $a(CKB)3710000000321647 035 $a(EBL)1899200 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001468359 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11782946 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001468359 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11524893 035 $a(PQKB)11459505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1899200 035 $a(DE-B1597)502879 035 $a(OCoLC)923710093 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048525942 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048525942 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1899200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11001088 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL801032 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000321647 100 $a20201130d2014|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFlogging others $ecorporal punishment and cultural identity from antiquity to the present /$fG. Geltner$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (112 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). 311 $a90-8964-786-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aCorporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did it vanish from penal theory, policy, or practice. Far from displaying a steady decline that accelerated with the Enlightenment, physical punishment was contested throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, its application expanding and contracting under diverse pressures. Moreover, despite the integration of penal incarceration into criminal justice systems since the nineteenth century, modern nation states and colonial regimes increased rather than limited the use of corporal punishment. Flogging Others thus challenges a common understanding of modernization and Western identity and underscores earlier civilizations' nuanced approaches to punishment, deviance, and the human body. Today as in the past, corporal punishment thrives due to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously, either as a measure acting upon a deviant's body or as a practice that epitomizes - in the eyes of external observers - a culture's backwardness. 606 $aCorporal punishment$xHistory 606 $aFlagellation$xHistory 615 0$aCorporal punishment$xHistory. 615 0$aFlagellation$xHistory. 676 $a364.67 700 $aGeltner$b Guy$f1974-$0962384 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459780403321 996 $aFlogging others$92461281 997 $aUNINA