Veiled sentiments honor and poetry in a Bedouin society /
"First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations,...
| Main Author: | Abu-Lughod, Lila, |
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| Other Authors: | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xix, 359 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Edition: | Thirtieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword. |
| Series: |
Ebook Central (EBC)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Guest and daughter. The community ; Fieldwork ; Poetry and sentiment
- Part I. The ideology of Bedouin social life : Identity in relationship. Aṣl: the blood of ancestry ; Garāba: the blood of relationship ; Maternal ties and a common life ; Identification and sharing ; Identity in a changing world
- Honor and the virtues of autonomy. Autonomy and hierarchy ; The family model of hierarchy ; Honor: the moral basis of hierarchy ; Limits on power ; Hasham: honor of the weak
- Modesty, gender, and sexuality. Gender ideology and hierarchy ; The social value of male and female ; The "natural" bases of female moral inferiority ; Red belts and black veils: the symbolism of gender and sexuality ; Sexuality and the social order ; Hasham reconsidered: deference and the denial of sexuality ; The meaning of veiling
- Part II. Discourses in sentiment. The poetry of personal life. On poetry in context ; The poetry of self and sentiment
- Honor and poetic vulnerability. Discourses on loss ; Matters of pride ; Responding to death ; The discourse of honor
- Modesty and the poetry of love. Discourses on love ; Star-crosses lovers ; An arranged marriage ; Marriage, divorce, and polygyny
- Ideology and the politics of sentiment. The social contexts of discourse ; Protective veils of form ; The meaning of poetry ; The politics of sentiment ; Ideology and experience
- Ethnography's values: an afterword
- Appendix : Formulas and themes of the Ghinnāwa.