The Plateau Whipping Complex and Its Relationship to Plateau-Southwest Contacts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2740967 |
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| Authors | Thomas R Garth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141 |
| Publication date | 1965-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/480614 |
| OpenAlex | W2321212662 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Punishment by whipping is seldom found in primitive societies.1 In the Americas corporal punishment of children usually took other forms, as holding a child in smoke (Pueblo), letting him lie all night bound in a puddle (Aztec), scratching him with a thorn or other object (Natchez), or ducking him in water (Crow).2 Correctional whipping of children was rare except in western North America. Within this area the Columbia Plateau tribes stand unique in whipping to correct adults as well as children. 3 Here we find the number of stripes varying with the crime, the feeling that it benefited and cleansed, and other features reminiscent of Europe before the 19th century. Ostensibly a European origin would seem likely, but closer scrutiny reveals a situation too complicated to be so easily resolved. Plateau whipping apparently antedates White entry of the area, so that it has generally been considered a purely native development. In this paper a review of the evidence points toward very early contacts with the Spanish Southwest and the probability of diffusion from this source.4
Archaeology · Geography · Plateau (mathematics) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Mathematics
| Highly cited | No |
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