The ‘honour-shame syndrome’ is an anthropological model originally developed in the sixties to describe Mediterranean cultural unity. The model came under heavy criticism, producing a veritable ‘anti-Mediterraneanist’ backlash. There is, however, a renewed interest in the regional paradigm. This article attempts an analysis of concepts of ‘honour’ in Malta, contextualising it within the broader ethnographic and linguistic evidence from the region. The author argues that ‘honour’ is a salient moral concept, and in fact, Maltese has a rich and highly nuanced discourse of honour, which includes both sexualised and nonsexualised aspects. While the author criticises the simplistic ‘honour-shame syndrome’ paradigm, he argues that honour needs to be considered in its own right as an important key to analysing the contemporary Maltese moral economy as it engages with ‘modernity’.

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马耳他人没有荣誉吗？

“荣誉-羞耻综合症”是一种人类学模型，最初是在 60 年代发展起来的，用于描述地中海文化的统一性。该模型受到严厉批评，产生了名副其实的“反地中海主义”反弹。然而，人们对区域范式重新产生了兴趣。本文试图分析马耳他的“荣誉”概念，并将其置于该地区更广泛的民族志和语言证据中。作者认为，“荣誉”是一个突出的道德概念，事实上，马耳他语拥有丰富而细致入微的荣誉话语，其中包括性化和非性化方面。虽然作者批评了简单的“荣誉-羞耻综合症”范式，