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Who Put the Devil Into the Pig?: How Human Society Absolved Itself From Blame For Almost Everything

By Bertrand Laurent
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By Bertrand Laurent
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"Who Put the Devil Into the Pig? (How Human Society Absolved Itself From Blame For Almost Everything)" is a nonfiction social history that blends anthropology, political history, law, and economics to explore how societies have long sought scapegoats through which guilt or evil could be punished, especially when their laws and institutions were too weak to confront transgressors directly.

The title is a play of words and images. "The devil" refers to society's guilt or failures and "the pig,...

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