Tournaments of Power

Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World

Tor Aase

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English

Routledge
28 October 2002

Social theory; Social & cultural anthropology; Social, group or collective psychology

In the 1970s, ""modernization theory"" contended that notions of honour would become obsolete in modern democracies. Being an archaic remnant of our pre-modern past, honour would be substituted by dignity under modern conditions. When honour does emerge as a valid social theme in modern society, as it sometimes does during court hearings, in gang fights, and in violent reactions to insult, it is often ascribed to immigration from pre-modern cultures where honour still matters in social life. Thus honour becomes part of the cultural baggage that is transferred to the host country through migration. However, the fact that highly modern social formations like MC gangs are also obsessed with honour seriously questions the validity of classical modernization theories. It seems that honour is not just a pre-modern weed in a modern garden of dignity, but an integral part of modernity. Since honour 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 honour is really all about. Containing international contributions from Scandinavia, USA, Mexico, Kurdistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Japan, this volume provides first-hand ethnographic accounts and important answers to these vital questions.

Edited by: Tor Aase
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 219mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 154mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780754631811
ISBN 10: 0754631818
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 28 October 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contributors: Tor Aase, Inger-Lise Lien, Joi Bay, Roy D'Andrade, Haci Akman, Eldar Braten, Bruce Kapferer, Leif Selstad, Marit Melhuus.

Reviews for Tournaments of Power: Honor and Revenge in the Contemporary World

’This fine book of essays convincingly demonstrates that honour is not vanishing, as many experts have claimed, but thrives where state authority is minimal. Â The remarkably coherent articles cover a wide range of cases, ranging from the honour codes of Danish outlaw bikers to blood feuds in the mountains of the Hindu Kush; from differential violence among inner city school children in Oslo to narratives of revenge in the villages of Java. Â This is a book that any social scientist interested in the way power is asserted and legitimized ought to have; it is also a book that any ordinary reader will find extraordinarily fascinating.’ Charles Lindholm, University Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, USA