{"product_id":"veiled-sentiments-9780520292499","title":"Veiled Sentiments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the late 1970s and early 1980s, the author 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. In this book, the poems are haunting, and the evocation of emotional life vivid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A foundational text for the subfields of literary anthropology and the anthropology of women in the Middle East.\" * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVeiled Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent study, thorough, meticulous, and stimulating, of the highly complex social system of these tribes, with particular emphasis on male-female relationships and on the intriguing, often paradoxical roles played by men and women to preserve this system.\" * Arab Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a beautiful account of a lifetime of shared \u003ci\u003e‘ishra\u003c\/i\u003e or moments between Abu-Lughod and the Awald ‘Ali Bedouins. Anthropology often looks at “the other”, but by representing the emotional dialectics between the informant and the researcher over time, what this book reveals is the impact fieldwork has on the anthropologist.\" * Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford *\u003cbr\u003e\"The republication makes an important classic study better available for new generations of readers and offers some new material for those already familiar with it, as well as providing the author’s own commentary on her earlier work.\" * Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Transcriptions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One: Guest and Daughter\u003cbr\u003e The Community\u003cbr\u003e Fieldwork\u003cbr\u003e Poetry and Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE\u003cbr\u003e The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two: Identity in Relationship\u003cbr\u003e Asl: The Blood of Ancestry\u003cbr\u003e Garaba: The Blood of Relationship\u003cbr\u003e Maternal Ties and a Common Life\u003cbr\u003e Identification and Sharing\u003cbr\u003e Identity in a Changing World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three: Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e Autonomy and Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e The Family Model of Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e Honor: The Moral Basis of Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e Limits on Power\u003cbr\u003e Hasham: Honor of the Weak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Four: Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Gender Ideology and Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e The Social Value of Male and Female\u003cbr\u003e The \"Natural\" Bases of Female Moral\u003cbr\u003e Inferiority\u003cbr\u003e Red Belts and Black Veils: The Symbolism of Gender and Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Sexuality and the Social Order\u003cbr\u003e Hasham Reconsidered: Deference and the Denial of Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning of Veiling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO\u003cbr\u003e Discourses on Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five: The Poetry of Personal Life\u003cbr\u003e On Poetry in Context\u003cbr\u003e The Poetry of Self and Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Six: Honor and Poetic Vulnerability\u003cbr\u003e Discourses on Loss\u003cbr\u003e Matters of Pride\u003cbr\u003e Responding to Death\u003cbr\u003e The Discourse of Honor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seven: Modesty and the Poetry of Love\u003cbr\u003e Discourses on Love\u003cbr\u003e Star–Crossed Lovers\u003cbr\u003e An Arranged Marriage\u003cbr\u003e Marriage, Divorce, and Polygyny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eight: Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e The Social Contexts of Discourse\u003cbr\u003e Protective Veils of Form\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning of Poetry\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Sentiment\u003cbr\u003e Ideology and Experience\u003cbr\u003e Ethnography's Values: An Afterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Formulas and Themes of the Ghinnawa\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864904675671,"sku":"9780520292499","price":31.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520292499.jpg?v=1722273276","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/veiled-sentiments-9780520292499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}