Showing papers on "Honor published in 1999"

Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America

Abstract: Part I. Introduction: 1. Antecedents 2. Precedents: sexuality and illegitimacy, discrimination, civil legitimation Part II. Life Course: 3. Mothers: pregnant virgins, abandoned women and the private and public price of sexuality 4. Fathers: life course and sexuality 5. Babies and illegitimacy: the politics of recognition from the font to the grave 6. Children: growing up illegitimate 7. Adults: passing, turning-point moments, and the quest for honor 8. Adults: the quest for family property Part III. The State's Response: 9. Royal officials: prelude (1717-1760) and early policy formation (1761-1775) 10. Bourbon reformers: the activist camara 1776-1793 11. Reform and retreat: Bourbon social policies after 1794 Part IV. Aftermaths: 12. The legitimated: life after Gracias al Sacar 13. Conclusion.

Honor, Symbols, and War

Abstract: Nelson Mandela's presidential inauguration invitation to his former jailer; the construction and destruction of the Berlin Wall; the Gulf War's yellow ribbons. While the symbolic nuances of words and actions such as these are regular concerns for foreign policy practitioners, the subject has never been emphasized in international relations theory. That will change with the publication of this exceptionally original work.Many practitioners see symbolism as peripheral compared to resources, interests, military power, and alliances. Those who theorize about norms, ideas, and institutions tend to be open to the importance of symbolism, but they have not drawn out its details. Barry O'Neill's "Honor, Symbols, and War" puts symbolism at the center of the discussion. O'Neill uses the mathematical theory of games to study a network of concepts important in international negotiation and conflict resolution: symbolism, honor, face, prestige, insults, and apologies. His analysis clarifies the symbolic dynamics of several phenomena, including leadership, prenegotiation maneuvers, crisis tension, and arms-control agreements.This book will be of interest to political scientists, in particular those involved with game theory and international relations. Its findings also will prove useful to students of cultural anthropology, sociology, social psychology, and political behavior.Barry O'Neill is Associate Professor of Politics, School of Management, Yale University.

The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens

Abstract: For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about the nature of justice. Re-creating in vivid detail the cultural context of this conversation, Allen shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. Each member of the city--including notably women and slaves--had a specific role to play in restoring equilibrium among punisher, punished, and society. The common view is that democratic legal processes moved away from the "emotional and personal" to the "rational and civic," but Allen shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics.Allen draws upon oratory, tragedy, and philosophy to present the lively intellectual climate in which punishment was incurred, debated, and inflicted by Athenians. Broad in scope, this book is one of the first to offer both a full account of punishment in antiquity and an examination of the political stakes of democratic punishment. It will engage classicists, political theorists, legal historians, and anyone wishing to learn more about the relations between institutions and culture, normative ideas and daily events, punishment and democracy.

Family Killing Fields Honor Rationales in the Murder of Women

Abstract: The authors argue that cultural and personal systems of honor that depend on the behavior of others are an integral part of the killing of women by their families or intimates. Comparing patterns of conduct in both traditional cultures and English-speaking countries, this study focuses on the basic elements of such honor rationales—control, feelings of shame, and levels of community involvement—to establish that such rationales are a worldwide phenomenon. An appreciation of such honor systems adds an additional theoretical dimension both for understanding the incidence of male intimate violence in English-speaking countries and for cross-cultural comparisons. Furthermore, it contributes to the current need for a theoretical framework that accounts for cultural and contextual patterns of male intimate violence.

Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good

Abstract: Contemporary debates over liberal political theory should encourage renewed investigation of the common good, and it is appropriate to begin by interrogating Aristotle's account. Aristotle argues that injustice stands in the way of the common good. Injustice is motivated by both overgrasping for scarce external goods, such as money, honor, and power, and by excessive desires. Aristotle argues that the common good requires a reorientation away from external goods to satisfying activities that do not diminish in the sharing. He sketches an analogical account of familial and political relationships that leads us to wonder what the political conditions are for the common good. Reflecting on these conditions not only points to the strict limits of the common good but also speaks to both sides in debates over liberal theory.

Doctors and nurses: a troubled partnership.

Abstract: To be elected to membership in the American Surgical Association is a mark of high honor and accomplishment for North American surgeons. But what has always impressed me is the active participation of leading surgeons from countries around the world, making it much more than an American Association. It is, in fact, the leading organization of surgeons, and to be elected President is the dream of every member. Thank you for making that dream come true for me.

Males and Honor Contest Violence

Abstract: This article examines characteristic elements of male violence that take the form of honor contests. Several examples are drawn from previous investigations of male violence to emphasize that honor contests cross historical and cultural boundaries. Next it analyzes three features of honor contests: (a) characteristics of those who participate (usually male, young, and lower class); (b) the settings where such violence occurs (leisure scenes where young working-class males can circulate and where their leisure involves consumption of alcohol and an audience of other males for the violent episodes); and (c) the interactional dynamics of these contests (consisting of opening moves, countermoves, and then a working agreement to engage in violence). Recognition of this form of violence will contribute to a better-informed theoretical discussion of the masculine nature of lethal violence than is possible through more conventional categories of classification of either social relationships or motivations in case...

Bioeconomics and sustainability : essays in honor of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

Abstract: These essays are in honour of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, the economist's economist. His theories are discussed, with particular emphasis on environmental and energy economics.

By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia

Abstract: 1 Cultural Concepts of Honor2 Patriarchy in Practice3 The Praxis of Honor4 Honor in the Elite5 Strategies of Integration in an Autocracy6 Toward the Absolutist StateEpilogue: The Endurance of Honor

Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War

Abstract: 1. The war at home 2. The concentration camps controversy and the press 3. Gender ideology as military policy - the camps, continued 4. Cannibals or knights: sexual honor in the propaganda of Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead 5. Interpreting South Africa to Britain: Olive Schreiner, Boers, and Africans 6. The imperial imaginary: the press, empire, and the literary figure Notes Works cited.

Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany

Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Glossary Introduction: defiled trades Part I. The Meaning of Dishonor in Early Modern Society: 1. Medieval versus early modern dishonor 2. Honor, status and pollution Part II. The Dishonorable Milieu: 3. The status of executioners and skinners, 1500-1700 4. Living on the periphery of dishonor Part III. Paradoxical Dishonor: Punishment and Healing: 5. The infamous fur coat, or the unintended consequences of social discipline 6. The executioner's healing touch: health and honor in early modern German medical practice Part IV. Artisanal Honor and Urban Politics: 7. Guardians of honor: artisans versus magistrates 8. Honor and dishonor in the eighteenth century Conclusion: dishonor and the society of orders Select bibliography Index.

The “Miracle” that did Happen: Understanding East Asia in Comparative Perspective

Abstract: I am honored by the invitation to give the Keynote speech at this celebratory Conference in honor of Professors Liu and Tsiang. But I am also intimidated: the many distinguished economists assembled here are scholars who know so much more than I do about the subject that I have been asked to address that my participation in the Conference will earn me an unrequited transfer rather than mere gains from trade.

Annihilation in the Messenger of God: The Development of a Sufi Practice

Abstract: Scholars have long noted that the Prophet Muhammad assumed increasing importance in Sufi thought and practice over the centuries. For Sufis, belief in Muhammad's perfection often went beyond the standard affirmation of his immunity from error, and sometimes went so far as the assertions of the Spanish Arab Qadi ʿIyad (d. 1149/50) that Muhammad had assumed all the qualities embodied in the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God. Belief in Muhammad as a primordial cosmic light of divine origin is documented as early as the 8th to 9th centuries, and reached its fullest exposition in the works of Ibn ʿArabi (1165-1240) and his successors. Popular devotion to the Prophet in the form of poetry in his honor and celebrations of his birthday is documented at least as early as the 13th century.

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Abstract: Part I The Jansenist years: the work of Satan the elect the ruling families power and local politics. Part II The changing of the guard: the decline of lineage the new families and the new politics. Part III Revolution: the revolution in local politics. Part IV Paris of the notables, 1795-1830: interregnum commerce, science, administration the tutelage of the State.

The Wisdom of the Body Revisited.

Abstract: Being selected a Cannon lecturer by the American Physiological Society is a singular honor under any circumstances, but a particularly poignant one for me because of my origins in Cannon’s old Department at the Harvard Medical School. In fact, when I began my career there as an instructor 45 years

Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico

Abstract: Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, dueling beame increasingly frequent among Mexican elite men. The duel was associated with modern science and the cosmopolitan culture of the national ruling class. Authorities refused to prosecute duelists. The translation and production of texts on dueling, as well as the influence of some experienced duelists, conveyed to public men the importance of a technology of honor. This technology, which involved the use of pistols and the knowledge of codes of dueling, sought to establish a space in which all members of the political elite, regardless of their ideological affiliation, could claim the same kind of honor. After the 1910 Revolution, as violence became widely associated with politics, duels became less frequent, but the concern among public men about honor and virility expressed by violence remained visible in political life, as witnessed by several episodes in Congress. The technology of honor was a central piece in the construction of a modern public sphere in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico. It granted equality to educated men, while excluding women and the poor from having a voice in politics. These lacked honor because they could not legitimately use violence to defend it.

Romans and the people of God : essays in honor of Gordon D. Fee on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Abstract: Nineteen New Testament scholars of international standing here offer fresh new insights to the ongoing interpretation of Romans. Including essays on various exegetical, theological, and pastoral aspects of Paul's epistle, this volume not only honors Gordon Fee's major contribution to New Testament scholarship but also presents the very best work available in a vital area of biblical research.

What History Teaches about the Impact of Educational Research on Practice

Abstract: Since antiquity, history has served a variety of human needs. At different times and places, written history has promised to teach moral lessons, guide political decision making, honor a heavenly Creator, and buttress the claims of church and state, or simply record memories of times past. These multiple uses of history remain evident today. Histories are often on the bestseller lists, especially biographies of the Founding Fathers. Interest in Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and a range of presidents seems undiminished. Bookstores at the mall stock shelves of volumes on the Civil War, World War II, and military history. Millions of Americans visit historical sites and museums and many participate in Civil War battle reenactments, and they also watch the History Channel (more wars and battles, mostly) and the “American Experience” series on the Public Broadcasting System. The crotchety Henry Ford told a newspaper reporter in 1916 that history “means nothing to me.” “History is more or less bunk.” Yet the popular Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, which opened in the 1930s, became a testimony to his growing interest in the past. In its diverse forms, history has not lost its appeal.1

"Vows to the Blackest Devil": Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England

Abstract: The Renaissance was a period in which the honor code underwent a significant metamorphosis. The medieval, chivalric code of honor, with its emphasis on lineage, allegiance to one's lord and violence, evolved into an honor code that was both more moral and political in that it began to emphasize the individual conscience and allegience to the state. Analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and in particular its characters' use of promise, provides new and revealing insights into the evolving Renaissance codes of honor, for Shakespeare creates characters in Hamlet that represent various stages in the evolution of a changing honor system.

Honor Discourse and the Rhetorical Strategy of the Apocalypse of John

Abstract: While Revelation resists analysis in terms of classical rhetorical criticism, investigation of honor discourse allows the interpreter to begin to unravel the strategies of persuasion brought to bear by the visionary upon his audiences. John is intensely interested in the question of whom to honor, and at what cost that honor is to be safeguarded. His visions employ topics of advantage and disadvantage (native to deliberative oratory), as well as models of admirable and censurable behavior (native to epideictic oratory), in an attempt to promote the path of loyalty to the Christian counterculture and its abhorrence of idolatrous forms of worship as the virtuous path which gives one nobility in the present and honor and safety in the future. A close reading of honor discourse in Rev. 14.6-13 becomes the anchoring point for an analysis of the rhetorical impact of the whole.