Ritualized Violence Russian Style

Ritualized Violence Russian Style
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Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 0804734127
ISBN-13 : 9780804734127
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Book Synopsis Ritualized Violence Russian Style by : Irina Reyfman

Download or read book Ritualized Violence Russian Style written by Irina Reyfman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book argues that the Russian duel acquired its enduring prestige because it served to define and to defend personal autonomy in a hierarchical state that lacked legal guarantees against corporal punishment. To fight a tradition that tolerated superiors' punching and slapping their subordinates, Russian duelists embraced raw violence and incorporated it into dueling procedure, thus replacing the hierarchical - and therefore humiliating - violence of corporal punishment with the equalizing violence of the duel. Once made reciprocal, a punishing gesture (such as a slap in the face) lost its capacity to impose a hierarchy of authority and became a means of promoting equality between the parties."--BOOK JACKET.


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