| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 359 pages) |
| Contents |
Guest and daughter. The community ; Fieldwork ; Poetry and sentiment -- 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 ; Ḥasham : 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 ; Ḥasham reconsidered : deference and the denial of sexuality ; The meaning of veiling -- 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-crossed 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 |
| Summary |
"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, morality, 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 Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning--for all involved--of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-350) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from online title page (JSTOR, viewed December 3, 2020) |
| Subject |
Bedouins -- Egypt -- Social life and customs
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Folk poetry, Arabic -- Egypt -- History and criticism
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Bedouins -- Egypt -- Folklore
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Honor -- Folklore
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Sex customs -- Egypt
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Women -- Egypt
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Bedouins
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Bedouins -- Social life and customs
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Folk poetry, Arabic
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Honor
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Sex customs
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Women
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Egypt
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520965980 |
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0520965981 |
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