Veiled sentiments honor and poetry in a Bedouin society /
"Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analys...
| Main Author: | Abu-Lughod, Lila. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1999]
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| Physical Description: |
xxxix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Edition: | Updated ed. with a new preface. |
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| Online Access: |
Publisher description Table of contents only Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: |
"Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index. Guest and daughter -- I: the ideology of Bedouin social life -- Identity in relationship -- Honor and the virtues of autonomy -- Modesty, gender, and sexuality -- II: Discourses in sentiment -- the poetry of personal life -- Honor and poetic vulnerability -- Modesty and the poetry of love -- Ideology and the politics of sentiment. "Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Physical Description: |
xxxix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0520224736 9780520224735 |