Honor

Name: Honor
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ISBN: 9780226774084

ISBN-10: 0226774082

ISBN-13: 9780226774084

Edition: 1994

Authors: Frank Henderson Stewart

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What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed? In the first sustained comparative analysis of this elusive notion, Frank Stewart writes that none of these ideas is correct. Drawing on information about Western ideas of honor from sources as diverse as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the writings of German jurists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society--the Bedouin--Stewart argues that honor must be understood as a…

Book details

Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.84" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


A Note about Arabic



Method



The Nature of Honor



The Sense of Honor


The Variety of Meanings of the Word 'Honor'


The History of the Word 'Honor'


The Collapse of Honor



Horizontal and Vertical Honor



Reflexive Honor



The Mediterranean



Honor and the Law



How to Do Things with Honor






Types of Bedouin Honor



Women



Dishonor



Bedouin-European Contrasts Honor and Stratification Honor and Obligations Honor and Violence 'Honor' and 'Ird'



Conclusion


Appendix 1


Appendix 2


Bibliography


Index