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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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