From Hospitality to Grace Hau Books executive editor Giovanni da Col managing editor Katharine Herman editorial Board Carlos Fausto Ilana Gershon Michael Lempert Stephan Palmié Jonathan Parry Joel Robbins Danilyn Rutherford Anne-Christine Taylor Jason Throop www.haubooks.com From Hospitality to Grace A JuLIAn PITT-RIveRS OMnIBuS edited by Giovanni da col and andrew shryock Hau Books Chicago © 2017 Hau Books unless otherwise indicated, all rights to Julian Pitt-Rivers’ work are held by Françoise Pitt-Rivers and reproduced here with her permission. Cover and layout design: Sheehan Moore Typesetting: Prepress Plus (www.prepressplus.in) ISBn: 978-0-9861325-2-0 LCCn: 2017945172 Hau Books Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S. Langley Chicago, IL 60628 www.haubooks.com Hau Books is printed, marketed, and distributed by The university of Chicago Press. www.press.uchicago.edu Printed in the united States of America on acid-free paper. table of contents acknowledgments xi introduction xiii A perfect host: Julian Pitt-Rivers and the anthropology of grace Andrew Shryock and Giovanni da Col part i: moral frames: honor, mana, and grace 1 chapter one Honor and social status in Andalusia 3 chapter two Mana 35 chapter three The place of grace in anthropology 69 chapter four The malady of honor 105 vi From Hospitality to Grace part ii: U ncertain relations: kin/friend, host/guest, male/female, and human/animal 119 chapter five The kith and the kin 121 chapter six Ritual kinship in the Mediterranean: Spain and the Balkans 141 chapter seven The law of hospitality 163 chapter eight Women and sanctuary in the Mediterranean 185 chapter nine The paradox of friendship 199 chapter ten Lending a hand: neighborly cooperation in southwestern France 211 chapter eleven Spiritual power in Central America: The naguals of Chiapas 227 part iii: transformative rites: sacrifice, substitution, and the sacred 249 chapter twelve The sacrifice of the bull 251 chapter thirteen The role of pain in rites of passage 267 chapter fourteen From the love of food to the love of God 275 TABLe OF COnTenTS vii chapter fifteen Quand nos aînés n’y seront plus 301 chapter sixteen The fate of Shechem or the politics of sex 323 part iv: analytics in place: concepts, theory, and method 375 chapter seventeen Contextual analysis and the locus of the model 377 chapter eighteen On the word “caste” 397 chapter nineteen Race in Latin America: The concept of “raza” 421 chapter twenty Reflections on fieldwork in Spain 449 afterword Grace and insight: The legacy of Julian Pitt-Rivers 465 Michael Herzfeld reference list 473 index 493 Julian Pitt-Rivers (1919–2001)