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Honor Is Peer-Validated Identity
- Honor depends on peer recognition rather than private virtue.
- Different groups shared the need for public validation but displayed honor through different rituals.
Toughness As Reputation
- Roughs proved manhood by showing they could give and endure pain.
- Brutal public fights and willingness to suffer built their reputation among peers.
Rough-And-Tumble Eye-Gouging Fights
- Rough-and-tumble fights were no-holds-barred spectacles watched by other men.
- Some combatants grew long fingernails to gouge eyes, and an eye wound could become a badge of honor.