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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.Peristiany, J. G. is the author of 'Honor and Grace in Anthropology' with ISBN 9780521390552 and ISBN 0521390559.
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