(p. 21); it is «irrevocably committed by. attitudes expressed in the presence of. witnesses, the representatives of public.
the pivotal values of the first century Mediterranean world was honour and shame. This article looks at how social-scientific critics have attempted to show how the .. in African societies. For instance, to the Yorubas of Nigeria, a child has three names: • The one that gives honour. • The one that covers us more than cloth.
His essay appeared alongside studies of other Mediterranean societies in a book entitled Honour and Shame: The Values of. Mediterranean Society (Peristiany 1965) that launched honor and shame in anthropology. The premise of the volume was that '[M]editerranean peoples are constantly called upon to use the.
Richard Herr; Honour and Shame: The Values of Mediterranean Society. Edited by Jean G. Peristiany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Pp. 265), Journa.
The social historians and anthropologists presented the concept of honour and shame as the values of Mediterranean society. However, the concepts of honour and shame can be detected in various spheres of social interaction as well as in different cultures around the world. Traditional customs of hospitality are a.
Peristiany, says in introduction, “Honour and shame are the constant preoccupation of individuals" in these selected Mediterranean societies and in some larger class of human communities, the bound- aries of that larger class as yet but dimly seen. Two essays, by J. K. Campbell and J. G. Peris- tiany, deal with Greek
of prominent social values. Indeed, many people today regard. “honor" as an old-fashioned word, while we normally associate the term “shame" with the most private aspects of our lives. In both past and present Mediterranean societies, however, honor and shame have played a dominant role in public life. The goal of this

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