Sin and Punishment: A Small Village Story: 1931-1997

Author: Zhu Xiaoyang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The History of an Ordinary Village for Nearly Sixty Years: A Case Study in Punitive Sociology. This book tells the story of a village on the eastern shore of Dianchi Lake and is an academic monograph based on anthropological field research. One of the themes of the book is to narrate "stories" — the deviant and punitive activities that occurred in the small village; and to explain the dynamic nature of these activities in the flow of time and their connections with specific conditions and specific actors. Another theme is to interpret the cultural significance of punishment in a specific social context.