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, morali...

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1. Verfasser: Abu-Lughod, Lila 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland University of California Press [2016]
Ausgabe:Thirtieth anniversary edition with a new afterword
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Zusammenfassung: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. Wha
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transcriptions -- ONE: Guest and Daughter -- The Community -- Fieldwork -- Poetry and Sentiment -- PART ONE: The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life -- TWO: 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 -- THREE: 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
FOUR: 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 -- PART TWO: Discourses on Sentiment -- FIVE: The Poetry of Personal Life -- On Poetry in Context -- The Poetry of Self and Sentiment -- SIX: Honor and Poetic Vulnerability -- Discourses on Loss -- Matters of Pride -- Responding to Death
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ISBN:9780520965980

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