imitating the kind of life he or she embodied.19 Honor and dishonor, then, are not only about the individual’s sense of worth but also about the coordination and promotion of a group’s defining and central values, about the strategies for the preservation of a group’s culture in the midst of a complex web of competing cultures, and about the ways in which honor or dishonor are attained, displayed and enacted. As we keep the dynamics of this rather complex model in mind, however, we can begin to