How Long to Read Purposeful Pain

How Long Does it Take to Read Purposeful Pain?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Purposeful Pain by Debra L. Martin (Professor of Biological Anthropology)

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Pain is an evolutionary and adaptive mechanism to prevent harm to an individual. Beyond this, how it is defined, expressed, and borne is dictated culturally. Thus, the study of pain requires a holistic approach crossing cultures, disciplines, and time. This volume explores how and why pain-inducing behaviors are selected, including their potential to demonstrate individuality, navigate social hierarchies, and express commitment to an ideal. It also explores how power dynamics affect individual choice, at times requiring self-induced suffering. Taking bioanthropological and bioarchaeological approaches, this volume focuses on those who purposefully seek pain to show that, while often viewed as "exotic," the pervasiveness of pain-inducing practices is more normative than expected. Theory and practice are employed to re-conceptualize pain as a strategic path towards achieving broader individual and societal goals. Past and present motivations for self-inflicted pain, its socio-political repercussions, and the physical manifestations of repetitive or long-term pain inducing behaviors are examined. Chapters span geographic and temporal boundaries and a wide variety of activities to illustrate how purposeful pain is used by individuals for personal expression and manipulated by political powers to maintain the status quo. This volume reveals how bioarchaeology illuminates paleopathology, how social theory enhances bioarchaeology, and how ethnography benefits from a longer temporal perspective.

How long is Purposeful Pain?

Purposeful Pain by Debra L. Martin (Professor of Biological Anthropology) is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Purposeful Pain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Purposeful Pain aloud.

What Reading Level is Purposeful Pain?

Purposeful Pain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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