Flogging Others : : Corporal Punishment and Cultural Identity from Antiquity to the Present / / G. Geltner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2015-2017
• VerfasserIn: Geltner, G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (120 p.) :; 5 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches --; 2. Punishing Bodies --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; List of Illustrations --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048525942; 9783110606447; 9783110662788; 9783111023779
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048525942?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: G. Geltner.

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 modern penal theory, policy, and practice. To the contrary, corporal punishment still thrives today thanks to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously. Challenging a number of common myths and misconceptions about physical punishment’s importance over the centuries, Flogging Others offers a new perspective on modernization and Western identity.