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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 317 pages.
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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.
Note This 1987 edition is now out of stock. A New Updated Edition is now available.]Title: Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
ISBN Number: 0520063279
ISBN-13: 9780520063273
Location Published: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1988
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good
Type: Anthropology/Sociology
Categories: Anthropology / Sociology, Middle East
Seller ID: 142929