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Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and
almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than
the plague and grace is what we all yearn for, whether in the form
of favor, luck, pardon, gratuity, or salvation. This 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 honor and grace, and the strategies and transactions by
which they can be obtained. They range from the French royal
rituals of the Middle Ages to the murderous feuds and peace-making
rites of the Rif; they show how different peoples and periods have
faced the problems of power, legitimacy, purity, divinity, and
personal destiny. The concluding chapter suggests that
anthropology, which ignored honor until a quarter of a century ago,
should no longer ignore grace, whose varied connotations provide
the basis of religious doctrines as well as the common coinage of
the exchange of favors and thanks.
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