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Revenge and Competitive Ritual

Revenge and Competitive Ritual. Alexander Lombardi 52131741. Why Revenge?. Italy: The Cava the Graziano families Conflict has lasted 30 years, violence becomes only more brutal. Revenge in the United States. Romanticized, idealized

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Revenge and Competitive Ritual

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  1. Revenge and Competitive Ritual Alexander Lombardi 52131741

  2. Why Revenge? • Italy: The Cava the Graziano families • Conflict has lasted 30 years, violence becomes only more brutal

  3. Revenge in the United States • Romanticized, idealized • Appears everywhere from literature to blockbuster movies: from Poe to Gladiator • Death penalty

  4. Competitive Ritual • In US, children go through many competitive rituals • Board games, physical contests, sports- all have clear winners and losers • Does this contribute to occurrence of revenge?

  5. Hypothesis and Testing • As competitive rituals for children increase, so will presence of revenge • Variables used: • V302: Competitive rituals in early boys • V914: Revenge

  6. Cross-tabulation Results

  7. Cross-tabulation in Circum-Mediterranean

  8. The Montenegrins • Known for blood feuds • Possess diverse vocabulary to describe blood feuding • Word for revenge – “osveta”- automatically carries implication of bloodshed • Very different idea of revenge

  9. Types of revenge • Asymmetric vs symmetric • Poetic and otherwise • Revenge as we know and love it is symmetric and poetic. For Montenegrins, we would see it as asymmetric and not poetic

  10. Conclusions • Potential link between children’s competitive rituals and symmetric revenge. However, when revenge is asymmetric, this link does not appear to exist.

  11. Sources -Tripp, Thomas M., Robert J. Bies, & Karl Aquino: “Poetic justice or petty jealousy? The aesthetics of revenge” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 89 (2002) 966-984 -Dwek, Juliet. “Women Enter Mafia Wars,” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/2372457.stm -Boehm, Christopher. Blood Revenge: the Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987

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