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key	S7ALSW2H
title	Branded Bodies : Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran
author	Vejdani, Farzin
authority control	Farzin Vejdani
item type	Journal article
publication year	2023
date	2023
publication title	Comparative Studies in Society and History (Cambridge, U.K.)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417522000512
abstract note	Forced branding, tattooing, and bodily inscriptions were linked to a complex intersection of meanings and uses in nineteenth-century Iran. Drawing on insights from studies of bodily inscriptions in other world historical contexts, this paper discusses branding as a marker of ownership, both of human slaves and of animals; Islamic attitudes toward bodily inscription and its symbolic significance in the afterlife; and associations between branding and human or divine love in Persian poetry. From this semiotic foundation, it turns to judicial uses of branding in nineteenth-century Iran: as torture for the extraction of incriminating admissions, and as punishment intended to shame (symbolically casting the criminal from society, stigmatizing their crime) and identify (tracking convicted criminals). Throughout the paper, branding’s legal place is understood in relation to silence and speaking, writing and reading, pain, humiliation, and the inversion of branding’s meaning by its victims, in Iran and a number of other societies.
pages	1-23
language	English
link attachments	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/branded-bodies-judicial-torture-punishment-and-infamy-in-nineteenthcentury-iran/37F43D8E9383C94813D9B721C2BF977B
manual tags	IRAN; PERSECUTION; 19TH CENTURY; CRIME; BRANDING; PUNISHMENT; TORTURE

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