Synopses & Reviews
In this classic work, Germaine Tillion argues that the phenomenon of men killing their daughters, sisters, and wives over matters of sexual honor is not an aberration specific to Islam. Rather, it is part of a pagan Mediterranean legacy of marriage between first cousins that still affects both modern Christian and Muslim societies. Tillion charts the rise of that unique Mediterranean social innovation she calls the “Republic of Cousins.”
Germaine Tillion, former director of studies of the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, is an anthropologist with unrivaled knowledge of nomads and settled agriculturalists in North Africa.
Synopsis
This classic work examines honor killings and their relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Mediterranean culture.
About the Author
Germaine Tillion, former Director of Studies of the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, is an anthropologist with unrivalled knowledge of nomads and settled agriculturalists in North Africa. She was involved with the French resistance under Nazi occupation and was interned in a concentration camp. She will turn 100 in 2007.