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Veiled Sentiments - Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (Paperback, -30th Anniversary Ed.)
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Veiled Sentiments - Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (Paperback, -30th Anniversary Ed.)
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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, morality, 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
Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and
sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social
hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre
becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the
complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes
a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology
and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find
themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social
formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the
meaning-for all involved-of the radical experience of
anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for
ethnographers.
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