Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin SocietyLila 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. -- Publisher description. |
Contents
ONE Guest and Daughter I | 1 |
TWO Identity in Relationship | 39 |
THREE Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy | 78 |
FOUR Modesty Gender and Sexuality | 118 |
PART | 167 |
SIX Honor and Poetic Vulnerability | 186 |
SEVEN Modesty and the Poetry of Love | 208 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agnates anthropologists Arab argues asked associated autonomy Awlad Awlad Ali Bedouin society Bedouin women behavior bonds bride brother Cairo camp chapter circumcision classical Arabic clients close cousin cultural ideals Cyrenaica daughter deference dependents described divorce Egyptians elder everyday experience express father feelings female genre ghinnāwas girl guests Haj's ḥarām hasham heard hierarchy honor and modesty honor code honor killings household husband identity ideology of honor individuals interactions kinship Libyan Libyan folk poetry lineage lived male marriage married Marsa Matruh meaning men's menstruation ments moral mother Mrābṭīn Muslim old woman older ordinary parallel-cousin Pashtun paternal patrilineal poems poetry political polygyny Press Rashid recited refer relations relationship response ritual romantic love Sa'adi sense sentiments shame share sheep sing songs status story taḥashsham tent tion traditional tribal tribe values veil wān wedding Western Desert wife wives word young