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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank Henderson Stewart |
ISBN: | 0226774074 9780226774077 0226774082 9780226774084 |
OCLC Number: | 30516636 |
Description: | xiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Method -- 2. The nature of Honor -- 3. The sense of Honor: The variety of meanings of the word 'Honor' ; The history of the word 'Honor' ; The collapse of Honor -- 4. Horizontal and vertical Honor -- 5. Reflexive Honor -- 6. The Mediterranean -- 7. Honor and the law -- 8. How to do things with Honor. The home ; The guarantee ; Protection -- 9. Types of Bedouin Honor -- 10. Women -- 11. Dishonor -- 12. Bedouin-European contrasts. Honor and stratification ; Honor and obligations ; Honor and violence ; 'Honor' and 'Ird' -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The history of the idea of Honor as a right -- Appendix 2. Iceland. |
Responsibility: | Frank Henderson Stewart. |
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Abstract:
This text analyzes the notion of "honour". Drawing on information about Western ideas of honour from diverse sources and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society - the Bedouin - the author argues that honour must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect.
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