Affiliation:
1. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Abstract
Abstract
This article examines attitudes evidenced in pre-imperial and Han sources (ritual compendia, historical chronicles, legal codes, administrative texts, and philosophical literature) towards visually repulsive individuals, in particular those who have undergone a penal mutilation. We start from the perception of bodily harm in the light of legal and ritual norms and the moral imperative of physical integrity, and then set out to analyze the concrete outcomes of mutilation visited upon certain kinds of offenders. Finally, we focus on three stories in the Zhuangzi, whose imaginary dialogues illustrate the way their authors try to change the social perception of outcasts in a context that was clearly adverse to their possible rehabilitation.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
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