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"The People of the Sierra" presents an engrossing account of the social structure of a rural community in Andalusia, the mountainous region of southern Spain. The author applies the principles of social anthropology, without recourse to jargon, to determine the nature of the leaders of a European peasant society the mayor, doctor, lawyer, priest and also the smugglers, bandits, "witches," and gypsies who live on the fringe.
For his second edition of "The People of the Sierra" Julian A. Pitt-River has unmasked the village of Grazalema which had been protectively cloaked in pseudonym for...

Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than the plague and grace is what we all yearn for, whether in the form of favor, luck, pardon, gratuity, or salvation. This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honor and grace, and the strategies and transactions...