essay
Honour and the devil
Honor and shame : the values of Mediterranean society • Chicago • Published In 1970 • Pages: 141-170
By: Campbell, John Kennedy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study explores the concept of honor as an important part of the individual Greek personality and its reconciliation with conflicting social and religious ideals within a community of Sarakatsani pastoral nomads in the Zagori district, Epirus, Greece. Other topics in this document discuss DROPE (sexual shame of women), the evil eye, concepts of sin, and ideas about God, and the Devil.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Gender status
- Ethics
- Ingroup antagonisms
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- Purification and atonement
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Greeks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sarakatsani, Zagori district, Epirus, Greece
- NotesAdditional notes
- John K. Campbell
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66011886
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Greece