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- catalog abstract ""Since honor emerges under pre-modern as well as under modern conditions, it is relevant to ask under which circumstances it becomes a theme in interaction. Blurring the distinction between the modern and the pre-modern in this manner allows us to ask what honor is really all about. Containing a wealth of international contributions from Scandinavia, USA, Mexico, Kurdistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Japan, Tournaments of Power provides first-hand ethnographic accounts and important answers to these vital questions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12628316.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Since honor emerges under pre-modern as well as under modern conditions, it is relevant to ask under which circumstances it becomes a theme in interaction. Blurring the distinction between the modern and the pre-modern in this manner allows us to ask what honor is really all about. Containing a wealth of international contributions from Scandinavia, USA, Mexico, Kurdistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Japan, Tournaments of Power provides first-hand ethnographic accounts and important answers to these vital questions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Tor Aase -- The dynamics of honor in violence and cultural change / Inger-Lise Lien -- Honor and revenge in the culture of Danish outlaw bikers / Joi Bay -- Violence without honor in the American South / Roy D'Andrade -- The prototypical blood feud / Tor Aase -- Honor, feuding, and national fragmentation in Kurdistan / Haci Akman -- Kampung revenge / Eldar Br°aten -- Hatred, revenge, sorcery / Bruce Kapferer -- Attraction of power / Leif Selstad -- A house that lacks a man, lacks respect / Marit Melhuus.".
- catalog extent "viii, 193 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Tournaments of power.".
- catalog identifier "0754631818 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tournaments of power.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Tournaments of power.".
- catalog subject "302/.1 21".
- catalog subject "BJ1533.H8 T68 2002".
- catalog subject "Honor.".
- catalog subject "Revenge.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Tor Aase -- The dynamics of honor in violence and cultural change / Inger-Lise Lien -- Honor and revenge in the culture of Danish outlaw bikers / Joi Bay -- Violence without honor in the American South / Roy D'Andrade -- The prototypical blood feud / Tor Aase -- Honor, feuding, and national fragmentation in Kurdistan / Haci Akman -- Kampung revenge / Eldar Br°aten -- Hatred, revenge, sorcery / Bruce Kapferer -- Attraction of power / Leif Selstad -- A house that lacks a man, lacks respect / Marit Melhuus.".
- catalog title "Tournaments of power : honor and revenge in the contemporary world / edited by Tor Aase.".
- catalog type "text".