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Draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. This work explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Keeping the Names Straight
Introduction

ONE Patrilineality
TWO Polygyny
THREE Reproduction
FOUR Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin Marriage
FIVE Honor and Shame

Transcriptions of Arabic Poems and Songs
Bibliography

Writing Womenss Worlds Bedouin Stories 15th

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 07/04/2008
    ISBN13: 9780520256514, 978-0520256514
    ISBN10: 0520256514
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. This work explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

    Table of Contents
    List of Illustrations
    Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
    Preface to the First Edition
    Acknowledgments
    Keeping the Names Straight
    Introduction

    ONE Patrilineality
    TWO Polygyny
    THREE Reproduction
    FOUR Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin Marriage
    FIVE Honor and Shame

    Transcriptions of Arabic Poems and Songs
    Bibliography

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