Veiled Sentiments Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

Name: Veiled Sentiments Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
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ISBN: 9780520063273

ISBN-10: 0520063279

ISBN-13: 9780520063273

Edition: 1986

Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod

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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. [Note: This 1987 edition is now out of stock. A New Updated Edition is now available.]

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/11/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ahmad H. Sa'di is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on political, social, and economic aspects of the lives of Palestinians in Israel.Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.



Preface To The Second Edition


Acknowledgments


A Note On Transcriptions



Guest and Daughter



The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life



Identity in Relationship



Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy



Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality



Discourses on Sentiment



The Poetry of Personal Life



Honor and Poetic Vulnerability



Modesty and the Poetry of Love



Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment


Appendix: Formulas And Themes Of Theghinnawa


Notes


Bibliography


Index