title: The cultural shaping of revenge.
abstract: There are interesting parallelisms between McCullough et al.’s article and studies of revenge presented by French legal anthropologist Raymond Verdier, particularly as regards the discussion of the increasing likelihood of revenge with increasing social distance. Additionally, the observation that many peoples speak of revenge in the language of debt and repayment, links it with exchanges of benefits as well as costs.
authors.affiliation: Anthropology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. stv@psu.edu
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beckerman
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009014:Morals; D012747:Sexual Partners