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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.

Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments A Note about Arabic 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 Bibliography Index

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 2/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226774077
      978-0226774077
      ISBN-10 0226774074
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      History of ideas

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Acknowledgments A Note about Arabic 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 Bibliography Index

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