Showing papers on "Honor published in 1991"

When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

Abstract: Tables and figures Introduction Part I. The Sixteenth Century: 1. The Pueblo Indian world in the sixteenth century Part II. The Seventeenth Century: 2. The Spanish conquest of New Mexico 3. Seventeenth-century politics Part III. The Eighteenth Century: 4. The reconquest of New Mexico 5. Honor and social status 6. Honor and virtue 7. Honor and marriage 8. Marriage and the church 9. Marriage - the empirical evidence 10. The bourbon reforms on the Northern Frontier Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.

Automated Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe

Abstract: Netherlands. No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. 297 Contributors 347 Index 349 Preface These essays have been written to honor W. W. Bledsoe, a scientist who has contributed to such diverse elds as mathematics, systems analysis, pattern recognition, biology, artiicial intelligence, and automated reasoning. The rst essay provides a sketch of his life, emphasizing his scientiic contributions. The diversity of the elds to which Bledsoe has contributed is reeected in the range of the other essays, which are original scientiic contributions by some of his many friends and colleagues. Bledsoe is a founding father of the eld of automated reasoning, and a majority of the essays are on that topic. These essays are collected together here not only to acknowledge Bledsoe's manifold and substantial scientiic contributions but also to express our appreciation for the great care and energy that he has devoted to nurturing many of the scientists working in those scientiic elds he has helped found.

Conflict Management, Honor, and Organizational Change

Abstract: How do top managers of a large American corporation manage conflict among themselves? This article investigates intracorporate executive conflict management in a Fortune 500 manufacturer via ethnographic methods. It focuses on the links between executive conflict management and widespread innovations in (1) top managerial formal structure and (2) hostile takeovers and their symbolic imagery. More speciafically, the article focuses on how these innovations disrupted the traditional social structure and "rules of the game" among top managers. The resulting new "culture of honor" suggests several implications for the study of managerial uncertainty, inertia, accountability, and control in contemporary American corporations.

The Quest for Authority and Honor in the American Professions, 1750-1900

Abstract: With the decline in the size of our industrial work force and the rise of the service occupations, the professions today are prominent models for a singular kind of social position. The professions and "professionalism" seem to offer an escape from vexing supervision at work as well as from some of the depersonalization and uncertainty of markets and bureaucracies. In taking account of our hunger for professional status and privileges, Samuel Haber presents the first synthetic history of major professions in America. His account emphasizes the substance of each profession's work experience, told from the vantage point of the doctors, lawyers, ministers, and their emulators whose work gave them a high sense of purpose and a durable sense of community. Contrary to those who regard the professions as exemplary and up-to-date specimens of social modernization or economic monopoly, Haber argues that they bring both preindustrial and predemocratic ideals and standards into our modern world. He proposes that the values embedded in the professions authority and honor, fused with duty and responsibility have their origins in the class position and occupational prescriptions of eighteenth-century English gentlemen. Such an argument has implications for the understanding of American society; it underscores the cumulative and variegated nature of our culture and suggests the drawbacks of trying to describe society as a system. It also accords with Haber's endeavor to write a history that rescues for description and analysis mixed motives, composite conditions, and persons and parties acting upon contradictory explanatory schemes. Haber traces the cultural evolution of the professions through three stages establishment (1750-1830), disestablishment (1830-1880), and reestablishment (1880-1900). He shows that when the gentlemanly class declined in the United States, the professions maintained status even in somewhat hostile settings. The professions thus came to be seen as a middle way between the pursuits of laborers and those of capitalists. Massive in scale and ambition, this book will have a formidable impact among scholars newly attuned to the history of American middle-class culture."

Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy

Abstract: In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and examines how these playwrights portrayed, manipulated, and otherwise represented popular religion in their plays. He discusses the central role of honor in ancient Athenian piety and shows that the values of popular piety are not only reflected but also reaffirmed in tragedies. Mikalson begins by examining what tragic characters and choruses have to say about the nature of the gods and their intervention in human affairs. Then, by tracing the fortunes of diverse characters -- among them Creon and Antigone, Ajax and Odysseus, Hippolytus, Pentheus, and even Athens and Troy -- he shows that in tragedy those who violate or challenge contemporary popular religious beliefs suffer, while those who support these beliefs are rewarded. The beliefs considered in Mikalson's analysis include Athenians' views on matters regarding asylum, the roles of guests and hosts, oaths, the various forms of divination, health and healing, sacrifice, pollution, the religious responsibilities of parents, children, and citizens, homicide, the dead, and the afterlife. After summarizing the vairous forms of piety and impiety related to these beliefs found in the tragedies, Mikalson isolates "honoring the gods" as the fundamental concept of Greek piety. He concludes by describing the different relationships of the three tragedians to the religion of their time and their audience, arguing that the tragedies of Euripides most consistently support the values of popular religion.

Contemporary constructions of the child : essays in honor of William Kessen

Abstract: This volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry. Among the topics examined: infant perception, action and social cognition; concept development and language; children's play; parent education; children with autism and Tourette's Syndrome; pediatrics and child development; and science, practice, and gender roles in early child psychology. A distinctive unifying theme arises from the contributors' discussions of substantive ideas in the context of their own impressive intellectual biographies. While providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, the contributors honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.

The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America

Abstract: Chronology1The Great Paradoxical Society: Ancient Athens12Democracy and the Paranoid Position133The Founding Miracle: Crisis and Possibility374The Founding Miracle: Compromise, Reconciliation, and Continuing Strife575The Spirit of Society: Citizenship, Freedom, and Responsibility756The Health of the Democratic Polis957Moderate Antidemocratic Movements and Oligarchic Death Squads: The Coups of 411 and 4041178Antidemocratic Thought, the Beginnings of Totalitarian Theory, and the Origins of Political Terror1359Clubs, Factions, Political Parties, and Mass Action15910The Eating of the Gods16811The Demos as Tyrant18612Narcissus-Dionysus20413Warfare and Genocide22814Political Action with a Class Basis - Sometimes Violent, Sometimes Not24815The People Reign but Elites Rule27316The Boundaries of Justice and the Tribal Bond29017Gain, Honor, Wisdom30818Education for the Political Life: Small-Town Democracy32019The Instability of the Republican City-State33620Democracy and the "Paranoidia" of Greed and Domination362Notes377Bibliography407Index415

Prisoner Exchange and Parole in the American Revolution

Abstract: HE American Revolution could have provided a perfect example of how prisoners of war might be exchanged or paroled. Conditions were right for the smooth operation of such a program. The two sides had, in the words of John Adams, "the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood."1 Moreover, each side found prisoner management difficult, although the numbers were not overwhelming and the honor system for parolees was generally respected. Yet, for most of the war, efforts to formalize the exchange and parole of prisoners went badly. At the time, British intransigence at the negotiating table, particularly in refusing to recognize the Independence of the United States, was most often cited as the principal cause of failure to achieve a reasonable exchange policy. But a close look at the record indicates that Congress was at least equally at fault.2 European countries in the late eighteenth century usually had agreements or cartels outlining, among other things, exchange and parole procedures to be followed during wartime. There was no such cartel between Great Britain and the country it refused to recognize.3 Releases

From Fathers to Friends of the People: Political Personas in the Early Republic

Abstract: Taking their cue from the social order in Great Britain, most colonial Americans accepted that public authority should be exercised by men who belonged to the so-called better sort. The phrase referred to an elite who combined superior wealth with genteel manners, classical learning, and a reputation for integrity. Prior to their revolution, Americans presumed that social, political, and cultural authority should be united in an order of gentlemen. Artisans and common farmers could vote and hold offices in their locality--offices such as surveyors of roads or viewers of fences, offices that bore little honor, no pay, but some manual labor. But it was unthinkable that any man without all the attributes of gentility should seek the more honorific and lucrative public offices at the county or provincial level. "Surely," Robert Morris of Philadelphia insisted, "persons possessed of knowledge, judgment, information, integrity, and having extensive connections, are not to be classed with persons void of reputation or character." Almost universal and unquestioning expectation, rather than formal law, underlay the unitary authority of the genteel in colonial America. For lack of an aristocratic

Confronting Authority: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the Remaking of Robinson Crusoe

Abstract: The process of remaking Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe continues as each successive generation since 1719 has taken the Crusoe myth, reconsidered it, reshaped it, repudiated it—and still we have not finished with this strange man, his island, and his Friday In this century alone, writers the likes of HG Wells, Joseph Conrad, Rose Macauley, Muriel Spark, EL Doctorow, William Golding, and Richard Hughes (to name only a few) have grappled with Defoe's creation in an attempt to silence his presence once and for all As Martin Green has suggested in his recent study, The Robinson Crusoe Story, Crusoe is a towering figure in literature: his tale has been hailed as the first English novel, the first story of psychological realism, the first adventure narrative, and the most compelling myth of Empire Indeed, so powerful is this father of literature, an entire genre, the Robinsonnade, has been named in his honor And as this name suggests—Robinsonnade—Crusoe exists in each of these remaking—a trace, a shadow, a subtext He is always there, in the margins

On Not Confusing Ourselves: Essays On National Security Strategy In Honor Of Albert And Roberta Wohlstetter

Abstract: In many ways the 1990s may be reminiscent of the 1950s, with the United States searching for strategies to deal with an entirely new set of security problems. This premise underlies this festschrift written by distinguished colleagues of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter. It is a tribute to the Wohlstetters and to their pioneering work at RAND in the 1950s, as well as an up-to-date examination of security issues of the 1990s.

Intellectual Property and US Relations with Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand

Abstract: Uphoff studies negotiations between the United States and Southeast Asian nations concerning intellectual property protection. She analyzes case studies showing how each of the ASEAN governments responded to American pressure to honor copyrights and patents. Her research is based on existing publications and interviews with government officials and scholars. -- Cornell University Press