Introduction : The shame of dishonor / David D. Gilmore -- Family and state in the Mediterranean / John Davis -- Seeds of honor, fields of shame / Carol Delaney -- Horsemen are the fence of the land : honor and history among the Ghiyata of eastern Morocco / Michael A. Marcus -- Female chastity codes in the circum-Mediterranean : comparative perspectives / Maureen J. Giovannini -- As in your own house : hospitality, ethnography, and the stereotype of Mediterranean society / Michael Herzfeld -- Honor, honesty, shame : male status in contemporary Andalusia / David D. Gilmore -- Shame, family, and state in Catalonia and Japan / Mariko Asano-Tamanoi -- Reflections on honor and shame in the Mediterranean / Stanley Brandes