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Veiled Sentiments : Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
ISBN: 9780520063273 | 0520063279
Format: PaperbackPublisher: University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date: 2/1/1988
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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 relations... MORE
| 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 a... MORE | |
| Modesty and the Poetry of Love | |
| Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment | |
| Appendix: Formulas And Themes Of Theghinnawa | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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