Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean

A stimulating reflection on the utility of the honor/shame model Kertzer American Anthropologist This volume is thus especially significant and timely, and should be recognized as generally important for anthropologists, regardless of their particular ethnographic concerns. Saunders Anthropological Quarterly Gilmore provides new, comparable data on Peristiany’s paradigm, honor and shame. He reexamines fundamental assumptions about Mediterranean unity made on the basis of the original honor/shame model. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Shame of Dishonor by David D Gilmore Family and State in the Mediterranean by John Davis Seeds of Honor, Fields of Shame by Carol Delaney Horsemen are the Fence of the Land Honor and History among the Ghiyata of Eastern Morocco by Michael A Marcus Female Chastity Codes in the Circum-Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives by Maureen J Giovanni As in Your Own House Hospitality, Ethnography, and the Stereotype of Mediterranean Society by Michael Herzfeld Honor, Honesty, Shame: Male Status in Contemporary Andalusia by David D Gilmore Shame, Family, and State in Catalonia and Japan by Mariko Asano-Tamanoi Reflections on Honor and Shame in the Mediterranean by Stanley Brandes