Showing papers on "Honor published in 1986"

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

Abstract: This updated edition is presented with a new Preface. Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.

The quiet Athenian

Abstract: Like its modern counterparts, Athenian democracy strove to be an assembly of all its citizens. But as is the case with modern democratic states, it often fell far short of this goal. This enlightening work focuses on a previously unexplored strata of Athenian society: the apolitical citizens. The author begins with a review of the traditional drives to honor and fame which gave impetus to ancient Athenian political life and then goes on to analyze the diverse motives of those who chose to abstain from participating in the democratic process. Dr. Carter's discussion takes full account of the demographic factors involved and sheds light on the economic, geographic, and cultural background of these apolitical Athenians.

Human rights and the search for community

Abstract: Human Rights and the Search for Community Liberal Society Cultural Absolutism and Nostalgia for Community Rights, Dignity, and Secular Society The Modern Community Honor and Shame Social Exclusion Individualism and Social Obligation

Honor and violence in the Old South

Abstract: Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J. Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites-both slaveholders and non-slaveholders-applied it to their lives. Wyatt-Brown argues persuasively that Southern ethical habits and traditions are the basis of regional distinctiveness and helped to perpetuate and justify the South's most cherised peculiarity: the institution of slavery. Using both literature and anthropology in innovative ways, Wyatt-Brown shows how honor affected family loyalty and community defensiveness. He also explains why, though it preceded and outlasted the demise of slavery, honor thrived on race oppression and was manifested in such violent acts as rape, lynching, and slave discipline. The work begins with a study of Hawthorne's famous story of a tar-and-feathering, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," and ends with an authentic lynching, an absorbing and chilling example of a public shaming ritual. Between these studies of fictional and historical violence, Wyatt-Brown deals with such wide-ranging topics as childbearing, marital patterns, gentility, legal traditions, duelling, hospitality, slave discipline, lynch-law, and insurrectionary panic-all of which were matters that gave white Southerners a special sense of themselves.

Essays in honor of Kenneth J. Arrow

Abstract: Professor Kenneth J. Arrow is one of the most distinguished economic theorists. He has played a major role in shaping the subject and is honoured by the publication of three volumes of essays on economic theory. Each volume deals with a different area of economic theory. The books include contributions by some of the best economic theorists from the United States, Japan, Israel and Europe.

Performance and Honor in 13th-Century Iceland

Abstract: Three lines of performance-centered analysis may be distingushed in current folkloric and anthropological thought, focusing respectively on performance as practice, the analysis of cultural performances, and the poetics of performance. Employing the third of these as a frame of reference, I analyze the interrelationships between artistic verbal performance and the pursuit of honor in 13th-century Iceland, demonstrating that they constituted a unified semiotic system and suggesting some comparative implications of thesefindings.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: The Reception of a German Best-Seller in the USA

Abstract: Over a decade has passed since Heinrich B611's Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum was published in the Federal Republic of Germany and subsequently produced for the American market by McGraw-Hill. While numerous articles have discussed the direct impact of B61l's work,' relatively little attention has been focused on its reception in the United States. This reception has continued in rather diverse formats, as indicated by the production of a television film adaptation, entitled "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck, " starring Marlo Thomas and Kris Kristofferson, (broadcast January 24, 1984). The reception of Katharina Blum in the USA exemplifies the complexity of literary reception in a cross-cultural context as well as a complex network of functional and structural relationships in the literary marketplace. An analysis of: 1) the marketing and presentation of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by McGraw-Hill, 2) book reviews in the major national print media, 3) a magazine condensation in Redbook magazine and 4) reviews of movie and television adaptations will provide some indices in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of literary communication in a cross-cultural context.

League of honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Stevens Mission to Russia

Abstract: .................................................... ii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS....................................... iv A NOTE ON TECHNICALITIES .............................. v INTRODUCTION.................................................. 1 CHAPTER ONE "A FIT PARTNER FOR A LEAGUE OF HONOR"....... 6 CHAPTER TWO ACROSS SIBERIA...............................34 CHAPTER THREE NEGOTIATIONS...............................65 CHAPTER FOUR WILSON AND THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT____116 CHAPTER FIVE THE BRITISH CALL FOR INTERVENTION........ 14 9 CHAPTER SIX WITHDRAWAL.................................. 177 CHAPTER NOTES...............................................204 BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................ 226 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS John F. Stevens.............................................107 The Stevens Mission meeting with Francis at the American embassy...................................... 107 Stranded materials in Vladivostok's harbor...............108 The harbor at Vladivostok................................. 108 A delegation of Chinese officials welcoming the Stevens Mission to Harbin, Manchuria................ 109 German prisoners working on the Trans-Siberian Railway..109 The Ob Bridge, Omsk Railway............................... 110 A Trans-Siberian Railway guard............................ 110 The Advisory Commission of Railroad Experts to Russia...Ill Elihu Root and Stanley Washburn meeting General Brusilov at Mogilev...................................Ill Alexander Kerensky........ 112 N. V. Nekrasov................ ...112 David R. Francis................. 112 Russian log-burning locomotive in Siberia................ 113 Baldwin locomotive on the Chinese-Eastern Railway....... 113 Soldiers parading before the Winter Palace, Petrograd...114 Soldiers and workers demonstrating, Petrograd........... 114 Murmansk from the harbor .................. 115 Government troops leaving Petrograd to meet the advance of Kornilov...................................115

Political Adulthood in Fifteenth-Century Venice

Abstract: climaxed more than three decades in the government of his city by gaining election as a procurator of St. Mark, an office in Venice's hierarchy of distinctions second only to the highest office, the dogeship itself. Even though Piero was not the most prominent of patricians (or nobles, as they called themselves), he had earned this honor after a career marked by numerous posts of responsibility. Specializing in fiscal matters, he had served a term as one of the three avogadori di comun, or state attorneys, and had sat on the Forty, Venice's highest court. His abilities (or connections) were strong enough to get him elected to the Forty when he was only twenty-nine years old-necessitating a six-month wait until he reached the statutory age of thirty before he could take his place on the bench.' But Piero Priuli's political distinctions, especially his election as an avogadore di comun, have an ironic twist that directs attention to some important but little-noted features of the patrician regime of Renaissance Venice. For his start in government was

Domestic Conduct in A Woman Killed with Kindness

Abstract: It is universally agreed that A Woman Killed with Kindness, Thomas Heywood's domestic tragedy published in 1608, is a masterpiece, the best of its kind, and that it is a seriously flawed play. But through the years, there has been a change in the nature of the problems which have concerned critics, along with a shift in their approach to these problems. In the 1930s and 1940s, critics of A Woman seemed preoccupied with Anne's sudden and unmotivated adultery. Eventually, Hallett Smith,' Henry Hitch Adams,2 and, a little later, Hardin Craig3 satisfactorily explained her behavior in terms of, respectively, Elizabethan literary conventions, Elizabethan theology, and Elizabethan psychology. In the next two decades, other critics, following the lead of Freda Townsend,4 turned their attention to resolving the problem of the apparent lack of relationship between the main plot and the subplot, which T. S. Eliot said "is too obviously there merely because an underplot is required to fill out the play."5 Townsend showed that both plots deal with virtue and honor and that the chaste Susan is contrasted with the unchaste Anne. Patricia Meyer Spacks found that the plots are linked by the contrast between apparent and real honor in the characters,6 and Herbert Coursen argued that the romantic nature of the subplot emphasizes the realism of the main plot.7 All of these suggestions are useful and none is at odds with our understanding of other aspects of the play. Recently, there has been a vaguer but nonetheless pervasive anxiety about the character of Frankford which threatens to jeopardize the appreciation of the play in our own time. What are we to do with a protagonist who attains heroic stature by killing his wife with kindness? Critics find themselves swept onto the horns of a dilemma

Bullfighting: The Ritual Origin of Scholarly Myths

Abstract: Logical and methodological errors abound in what currently passfor authoritative analyses of the Spanish bullfight: misuse offolklore, misapplication of Spanish notions of honor and masculinity, cavalier disregardfor the explanations of the people who actually stage the events, and manifest intolerance of cultural ambiguities. Research will proceed in productive directions when the matador's performance is distinguishedfrom the psychocultural elaborations it elicits.

Kathe Kollwitz on Sacrifice, Mourning, and Reparation: An Essay in Psychoaesthetics

Abstract: When Peter, the artist's eighteen-year-old son was killed in battle in 1914, Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was 47 years old and an established Berlin artist. Her graphic works and sculptures, her diary and letters express not only a mother's intense grief, but also the inner turmoil, the uncertainty, the questions about the meaning of sacrifice in war with which she struggled for many years after. It is of interest to follow her evolution closely, since the path she took to her eventual pacifism was long and arduous. For what she confronted was the powerful ideology that surfaces repeatedly to acclaim and justify death in war: the call for voluntary sacrifice of life, one's own and that of family, friends, lovers, in the name of higher values, be it honor, freedom, religion, country. It was just this view, of course, that pervaded the conceptual horizon at the beginning of World War I to the point of eclipsing pacifist protests and prompting large numbers of idealistic youths-English, French, German, Russian-to volunteer to fight, among whom the artist's two sons. Far from being limited to male acclaim, the will to sacrifice was approved and promoted by women across the political spectrum. Thus Gertrud Baumer, who headed the Geman bourgeois women's movement, and the socialist leader Clara Zetkin agreed that mothers in particular understand and accept the necessity for one generation to shed its blood for the good of those to come.' Although Zetkin urged women to dissuade their

Evolving models for family change : a volume in honor of Salvador Minuchin

Abstract: This volume was written in honor of Salvador Minuchin on the occasion of his retirement from the Philadel­ phia Child Guidance Clinic. For years, this Clinic has provided the context for the seminal work of Minuchin and other major figures in the family therapy movement. Many of these figures have contributed chapters to this volume. In fact, the list of contributors reads like a roll call of major theorists and practitio­ ners in family therapy—E. H. Auerswald, Luigi Cancrini, Jay Haley, Lynn Hoffman, Norman and Betty Paul, Maurizio Andolfi, Alan Cooklin, Charles Fishman, Philip Guerin, Edward Gordon, Cloe Madanes, Peggy Papp, Richard Rabkin, Bernice Rosman, Duncan Stanton, Lyman Wynne, Fred Gottlieb, Virginia Satir, Carl Whitaker, and Theodora Ooms.

The Eternal Triangle and Court Politics: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Sir Thomas Wyatt

Abstract: The opinion of modern scholars is divided about the nature of Anne Boleyn's relationship to Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Tudor poet. On the basis of a few of his verses and three Catholic treatises, some writers have concluded that Anne and he were lovers. In these analyses not enough attention has been paid to the role of Henry VIII, the third member of this alleged lovers' triangle, who guarded his own honor and inquired into that of his wives, before, during, and after their marriages to him. A comment on the way in which the king viewed and defended his honor will be useful to this examination of the evidence customarily accepted as proof of Anne and Wyatt's love affair.A gentleman's honor, as Henry's contemporaries perceived it, was a complicated concept. First and foremost it was assumed that a man's birth and lineage would predispose him to chivalric acts on the battlefield where, in fact, only one cowardly lapse would stain his and his family's reputation forever. Secondly, the concept embodied the notion that it bestowed upon its holder certain social privileges and respect. During Henry's reign, moreover, the “realm and the community of honour” came to be viewed as “identical” with the sovereign power of the king at its head. One result of this “nationalization,” was that the behavior of crown dependants and servants affected the king's good name in both a personal and a public sense, and his ministers took care to do all that was appropriate to his reputation in settling disputes and in negotiating treaties.