The cock, the dog, the serpent, and the monkey. Reception and transmission of a Roman punishment, or historiography as history

Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.

Steven Shapin, Paula Findlen · The American Historical Review · 1996 · 459 citations

Humanities, History, Cultural History +16

From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar

Michael Lambek, Maurice Bloch · Man · 1987 · 200 citations

Humanities, Anthropology, History +10

The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression; From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience

Julius R. Ruff, Pieter Spierenburg · The American Historical Review · 1986 · 197 citations

Social Sciences, Criminal Law, Criminology +13

History, Structure, and Ritual

John D. Kelly, Martha Kaplan · Annual Review of Anthropology · 1990 · 150 citations

Humanities, Anthropology, History +10

THE MUSEUM: ITS CLASSICAL ETYMOLOGY AND RENAISSANCE GENEALOGY

Paula Findlen · Journal of the History of Collections · 1989 · 131 citations

Humanities, Classics, Book History +9