Synopsis
The corporal punishment of youth is a controversial practice across all human societies, but perhaps nowhere has this controversy been overlooked more than in Japan, a nation whose complexities have all too often been hidden from western observers. In this book, Aaron L. Miller, a socio-cultural anthropologist of education and sports with long standing ties to Japan, pulls back the veil of this controversy in Discourses of Discipline: An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan’s Schools and Sports. Miller documents in rich detail the various viewpoints regarding this practice, by some accounts an effective tool of proper guidance, by others, a violent violation of human rights.
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