Veiled Sentiments Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

Name: Veiled Sentiments Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
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ISBN: 9780520224735

ISBN-10: 0520224736

ISBN-13: 9780520224735

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Updated Edition With a New Preface 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 details

List price: $31.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
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 Community


Fieldwork


Poetry and Sentiment



Identity in Relationship


Asl: The Blood of Ancestry


Garaba: 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



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



Formulas and Themes of the Ghinnawa


Notes


Bibliography


Index