{"product_id":"honor-and-grace-in-anthropology-9780521619325","title":"Honor and Grace in Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction J. G. Peristiany and Julian Pitt-Rivers; 2. Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France Catherine Lafages; 3. The court surrounds the King: Louis XIV, the Palatine Princess, and Saint-Simon Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie; 4. Rites as acts of institution Pierre Bourdieu; 5. Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain Julio Caro Baroja; 6. The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community J. G. Peristiany; 7. The Greek hero J. K. Campbell; 8. Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily Maria Pia Di Bella; 9. From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif Raymond Jamous; 10. Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept Sandra Ott; 11. Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology Julian Pitt-Rivers; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767697277271,"sku":"9780521619325","price":40.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521619325.jpg?v=1758714463","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/honor-and-grace-in-anthropology-9780521619325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}