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Hooks, ropes and a lancet used by Hindu ascetics for self-torture. Engraving, 1798.
Date: May 1798Reference: 567798i- Pictures
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Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
Date: 1800Reference: 567686i- Pictures
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A Hindu ascetic or holy man performing self-torture, accompanied by a woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
Date: 1800Reference: 567682i- Pictures
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A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended upside down over a small fire by cords tied around his ankles. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
Date: [1880? (?)]Reference: 566997i- Pictures
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A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended by a hook and two spikes inserted through the muscles of his back. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Reference: 566952i- Books
Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-Date: 2015- Pictures
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A Muslim man accompanied by a boy: both with rods and chains piercing their bodies at the festival of Muharram in Shusha, Azerbaijan (?). Etching by R.R. after H. Koch, ca. 1878.
Koch, H., active approximately 1878.Date: 1878Reference: 567717i