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| Titre : |
The tanner's privilege - a historical review of the tanner's status in different societies |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
R. D. Higham, Auteur |
| Année de publication : |
1999 |
| Article en page(s) : |
p. 25-31 |
| Note générale : |
Bibliogr. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
675 Technologie du cuir et de la fourrure |
| Résumé : |
Where concepts of personal defilement through contact with dead and decaying material are enshrined in theology, those who handle hides, skins and leather find themselves in situations of hereditary social disadvantage. This is particularly the case in India and Japan where there is sensitivity to imparted impurity that stems from religious beliefs.
The former oxious nature of some of the tanning processes relegated tanners to socially inferior status in many countries. In judaism, rabbinic regulations, from the 3rd century BC onwards, formulated to some degree the extent of their disadvantage. Reduction in prejudice and improved technology have greatly diminished this disadvantage.
Christian theology teaches that there should be no ostracism on account of occupation. The apostle Peter's stay at the house of Simon the tanner illustrates this (Acts 9:43 and 10:6). Indeed, clothing of skin is associated with God's solution to mankind's fundamental problem. The products of slaughtered animals covered man's nakedness (Genesis 3:21). |
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in JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF LEATHER TECHNOLOGISTS & CHEMISTS (JSLTC) > Vol. 83, N° 1 (01-02/1999) . - p. 25-31
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The tanner's privilege - a historical review of the tanner's status in different societies in JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF LEATHER TECHNOLOGISTS & CHEMISTS (JSLTC), Vol. 83, N° 1 (01-02/1999)
