Sin and Punishment (Little Village Story 1931-1997)

Author: Zhu Xiaoyang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The History of an Ordinary Village in the Past Sixty Years: A Case Study in Punishment 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" of deviance and punishment activities that occurred in the small village; it also explains 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.