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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abu-Lughod, Lila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Edición:Thirtieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword.
Temas:
Bedouins > Egypt > Social life and customs.
Folk poetry, Arabic > Egypt > History and criticism.
Bedouins > Egypt > Folklore.
Honor > Folklore.
Sex customs > Egypt.
Women > Egypt.
Bédouins > Égypte > Mœurs et coutumes.
Poésie populaire arabe > Égypte > Histoire et critique.
Bédouins > Égypte > Folklore.
Honneur > Folklore.
Vie sexuelle > Égypte.
Femmes > Égypte.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Bedouins.
Bedouins > Social life and customs.
Folk poetry, Arabic.
Honor.
Sex customs.
Women.
Egypt.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Guest and daughter. The community ; Fieldwork ; Poetry and sentiment
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The poetry of personal life. On poetry in context ; The poetry of self and sentiment
  • Honor and poetic vulnerability. Discourses on loss ; Matters of pride ; Responding to death ; The discourse of honor
  • Modesty and the poetry of love. Discourses on love ; Star-crossed lovers ; An arranged marriage ; Marriage, divorce, and polygyny
  • Ideology and the politics of sentiment. The social contexts of discourse ; Protective veils of form ; The meaning of poetry ; The politics of sentiment ; Ideology and experience
  • Ethnography's values : an afterword
  • Appendix: Formulas and themes of the Ghinnāwa.

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