Honor

- Contents

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
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies
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