Veiled Sentiments

by Abu-Lughod, Janet L.

• ISBN13: 9780520224735
• ISBN10: 0520224736
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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.

Author Biography

Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at New York University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	xi
Acknowledgments	xxxi
A Note on Transcriptions	xxxv
Guest and Daughter	1	(38)
The Community	1	(8)
Fieldwork	9	(15)
Poetry and Sentiment	24	(15)
PART ONE The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life
Identity in Relationship	39	(39)
Asl: The Blood of Ancestry	41	(8)
Garaba: The Blood of Relationship	49	(10)
Maternal Ties and a Common Life	59	(6)
Identification and Sharing	65	(5)
Identity in a Changing World	70	(8)
Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy	78	(40)
Autonomy and Hierarchy	78	(3)
The Family Model of Hierarchy	81	(4)
Honor: The Moral Basis of Hierarchy	85	(14)
Limits on Power	99	(4)
Hasham: Honor of the Weak	103	(15)
Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality	118	(53)
Gender Ideology and Hierarchy	118	(1)
The Social Value of Male and Female	119	(5)
The ``Natural'' Bases of Female Moral Inferiority	124	(10)
Red Belts and Black Veils: The Symbolism of Gender and Sexuality	134	(9)
Sexuality and the Social Order	143	(9)
Hasham Reconsidered: Deference and the Denial of Sexuality	152	(7)
The Meaning of Veiling	159	(12)
PART TWO Discourses on Sentiment
The Poetry of Personal Life	171	(15)
On Poetry in Context	171	(6)
The Poetry of Self and Sentiment	177	(9)
Honor and Poetic Vulnerability	186	(22)
Discourses on Loss	186	(1)
Matters of Pride	187	(10)
Responding to Death	197	(7)
The Discourse of Honor	204	(4)
Modesty and the Poetry of Love	208	(25)
Discourses on Love	208	(1)
Star-Crossed Lovers	209	(6)
An Arranged Marriage	215	(7)
Marriage, Divorce, and Polygyny	222	(11)
Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment	233	(28)
The Social Contexts of Discourse	234	(4)
Protective Veils of Form	238	(2)
The Meaning of Poetry	240	(8)
The Politics of Sentiment	248	(7)
Ideology and Experience	255	(6)
Appendix: Formulas and Themes of the Ghinnawa	261	(12)
Notes	273	(24)
Bibliography	297	(12)
Index	309