PSCI 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eye For An Eye, Ostracism
11 Mar 2016
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Talion law honor, eye for an eye. Scarcity and sustainability requires high degrees of communal unity for purposes of group survival. Honor and shame are grounded in instructional norms . Communal values that carry public shame and are designed to promote public demonstration of adherence to communal obligations, practices, and traditions. Communal values that stress external appearances relative to kin and ancestors (nepalese ostracism) in order to promote ecological sustainability and intergenerational survivability within groups. Become transformed into shame disciplines (public punishments designed to teach not only the punished, but the entire community) Represent the cultural significance of commitment and obligation in liberal or market societies that function according to individual choice. They demonstrate the primacy of guilt for failure and the alone quality of personal behavior. Shame is a discipline that functions in relation to arranged marriage. Lineage, blood, fonoly honor serves as the mechanism to enforce kinship rules and practices.
