title: Honour Found: Experiencing the Power of the Honour Principle and How it Can Add Significance to Your Life
author:  Robert Barriger 
description: Robert and his wife Karyn moved to Lima, Peru in 1983 and are settled in for the long haul... you'll often hear them quoting, &#34;long term missions, long term results.&#34; They love God's church and have a passion to team up with other churches throughout South America to see them reach their full potential.
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  **Honourable intentions?**
  
  _Honourable Intentions?_ compares the significance and strategic use of ideas
  of honour in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the early British
  
  settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. In both regions swirled a
  
  free, and often transient, population of emigrants and sojourners, sailors
  
  and soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves and convicts, all with diverse
  
  backgrounds and transnational experiences. The mobile populations
  
  of colonial societies brought together cultures that held disparate, even
  
  contradictory, codes of honour and during these times of flux, concepts of
  
  honour and status were radically reconstructed.
  
  Each of the thirteen chapters considers honour in a particular sphere –
  
  legal, political, religious or personal – and in different contexts determined
  
  by the distinctive and changing matrix of race, gender and class, as well as
  
  the distinctions of free and unfree status in each colony. The 