Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction J. G. Peristiany and Julian Pitt-Rivers; 2. Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France Catherine Lafages; 3. The court surrounds the King: Louis XIV, the Palatine Princess, and Saint-Simon Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie; 4. Rites as acts of institution Pierre Bourdieu; 5. Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain Julio Caro Baroja; 6. The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community J. G. Peristiany; 7. The Greek hero J. K. Campbell; 8. Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily Maria Pia Di Bella; 9. From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif Raymond Jamous; 10. Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept Sandra Ott; 11. Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology Julian Pitt-Rivers; Index.

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Different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.