Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, - Softcover

Lila Abu-Lughod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520224736 ISBN 13: 9780520224735

Publisher: University of California Press, 2000

Synopsis

Updated Edition With a New Preface

Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations 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 her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.

About this title

About the Author

Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (California, 1993) and editor of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (1998).

From the Back Cover

"A truly extraordinary book--beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." ―Edward Said, author of Out of Place: A Memoir

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"A truly extraordinary book--beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." —Edward Said, author of Out of Place: A Memoir

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520224736
• ISBN 13: 9780520224735
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 356