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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Some anthropologists can argue that it is impossible to separate the social organizational (the realm of groups or aggregates-e.g., households, lineages, and farms) from the cultural (e.g., norms, rules, values, ideologies, and the like-hereafter, normative mental representations) and that the distinction between social and cultural anthropology is therefore an artificial one. To the contrary, others can argue that the social organizational (or "groupal") and cultural perspectives refer to two analytically separate albeit intertwined levels of reality, sometimes shed a different light on a single phenomenon, and have different analytical value. This distinction I show through the study of the notion of "honor" and its relation to the gender division of labor and to the status of women in Tunisia.
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