Veiled Sentiments

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.

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

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

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