ABSTRACT
In his Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982), Bertram Wyatt-Brown drew on anthropological theory to explore the origins and nature of the Old South's culture. Like Genovese, he viewed that culture as premodern in many ways. Unlike Genovese, he argued that the roots of the southern culture lay in a concept of “honor” that originated in the folk cultures of early Europe, rather than in the master-slave relationship itself.
