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Veiled Sentiments : Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
by Lila Abu-LughodISBN13:
9780520063273
ISBN10:
0520063279
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
2/1/1988
Publisher(s):
University of Chicago Press
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Summary
A beautifully-written--almost poetic--ethnography of the Bedouins in Egypt as well as a study of gender relations through analysis of their oral lyric poetry.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
