Honour in African HistoryCambridge University Press, 2005 - 404 pages This book argues that Frican behaviour, often puzzling to outsiders, is shaped by ideas which have historical roots stretching back for many centuries. It is therefore both a history book, easily accessible to students and general readers, and a contribution to understanding of contemporary Africa. By taking a long and fresh perspective, it makes sense of much that otherwise seems bewildering. It is the product of forty years of study and travel. |
Table des matières
The Comparative History of Honour | 1 |
Hero and Householder | 9 |
Men on Horseback | 11 |
Honour and Islam | 31 |
Christian Ethiopia | 54 |
Honour Rank and Warfare Among the Yoruba | 67 |
Honour and the State in West and Central Africa | 83 |
Honour Without the State | 100 |
Honour in Defeat | 202 |
The Honour of the Mercenary | 227 |
Respectability | 246 |
Honour and Gender | 262 |
Urbanisation and Masculinity | 281 |
Honour Race and Nation | 306 |
Political Honour | 328 |
To Live in Dignity | 350 |
The Honour of the Slave | 119 |
Praise and Slander in Southern Africa | 140 |
Ekitiibwa and Martyrdom | 161 |
Fragmentation and Mutation | 181 |
The Deaths of Heroes | 183 |
Concluding Questions | 367 |
Bibliography | 371 |
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