ABSTRACT
This article discusses traditional approaches to shame and honour in agricultural societies, and the frequent intertwining of shame and guilt. It turns then to the significant revision of approaches to shame and honour in western societies, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and extending clearly through the nineteenth, in areas such as public punishment. These trends also opened new issues concerning guilt. Developments in Asia and Latin America, where shaming retained a larger hold, are contrasted, but there were mutual interactions as well. The article treats more recent developments, such as the revival of shaming in places like the United States, and more contemporary interregional comparisons in its final section.
