The Punishment Monopoly
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Pem Davidson Buck. The Punishment Monopoly
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“In a reckoning with the past that explains the horrors of the present, anthropologist Pem Buck digs into tales of her ancestors and historical archives to weave an unforgettable story of the rise and reproduction of the family, private property, and the punitive state. The secret global history of the United States revealed in this masterwork is a must-read for knowing the world, then and now.”
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Building the Powhatan empire must have led to changing relationships among priests. Each chief, some of whom were women, was associated with particular priests, and as a chief was conquered and subordinated, his or her priests would probably have been subordinated in some sense to Wahunsonacock’s priests. The structure of diarchy as it affected daily lives may have changed correspondingly, so that the local representatives of the sacred lost their power as final authority.39 Local people’s loyalty would then shift more effectively toward Wahunsonacock and his priests, particularly as they became the ultimate punishing authorities.
FOR MANY OF THOSE AT JAMESTOWN, having experienced the chaos in England resulting from the gradual development of capitalism and the disputes between church and state, and now confronted with more chaotic conditions, Powhatan communities must have been tempting. Many, in the early years in Jamestown, wrote home about Powhatan social structure with its order, hierarchy, obedience, and reverence for their king, which seemed to exemplify all that they felt their own society in England and in Virginia had recently lost.40 Maybe X was one of those who ran away to join the Powhatan.
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