Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
How hospitality rules bind a guest and a host
Hospitality binds both sides, because the house is opened and the stranger is let in.
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From the opening
Hospitality rules bind a guest and a host because each has accepted a risk the other could exploit. The host opens a house, and the guest enters someone else's order, so the custom has to limit both the host's power and the guest's freedom. The opening covers the host owes protection, the guest owes restraint and leaving, and greek xenia guarded both sides.
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Inside
- The host owes protection
- The guest owes restraint and leaving
- Greek xenia guarded both sides
- A paid room thins the old bond
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Greek xenia and Zeus as guardian of guests
- Mutual duties of protection and guest restraint