Eye for an eye /
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| 100 | 1 | |a Miller, William Ian, |d 1946- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Eye for an eye / |c William Ian Miller |
| 260 | |a Cambridge ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c c2006 | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 266 p. ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface : a theory of justice? -- 1. Introductory themes : images of evenness -- The scales of justice -- Just about words -- 2. The talion -- Getting even? -- The compensation principle -- The euphony of eyes and teeth -- 3. The talionic mint : funny money -- Body parts and money -- Paying gods in bodies and blood -- Cutting up bread, cutting up the body -- 4. The proper price of property in an eye -- Property rules and liability rules -- Life is cheap? -- 5. Teaching a lesson : pain and poetic justice -- Instruction on feeling another's pain -- Deuteronomy's artful talionic lesson -- Coda : mixing metaphors : paying back and paying for -- 6. A pound of flesh -- Shearing fleece and eating (human) flesh -- Have mercy -- The humanizing force of vengefulness -- 7. Remember me : mnemonics, debts (of blood), and the making of the person -- Burning in the memory -- Bloody tokens and the relics of the unavenged dead -- Remembering the dead and not forgetting oneself -- The happy dead -- Grief, guilt, and tormenting ghosts -- The mnemonics of wergeld and the fragility of well-being -- 8. Dismemberment and price lists -- Slave values -- The sum of the parts -- Flipping the bird -- 9. Of hands, hospitality, personal space, and holiness -- Hospitality and Mund -- Hands and reach -- Wholly holy -- 10. Satisfaction not guaranteed -- Release of pressure, or filling the void up full? -- Serving up revenge : bitter or sweet -- The mind of the vengeance target : regret, remorse, cluelessness -- Killing him or keeping him alive for scoffing, and other fine points -- 11. Comparing values and the ranking game -- The politics of comparing values, or what's eating the incommensuralists -- The ranking game -- Ranking at a Viking feast -- 12. Filthy lucre and holy dollars -- Dirty dollars and the making of pricelessness -- Buying back and the sacred -- Everything for sale -- Conclusion | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Lex talionis |x History | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Law, Ancient | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Law, Primitive | |
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