TY - BOOK ID - 32915880 TI - Veiled sentiments : honor and poetry in a Bedouin society PY - 2016 SN - 9780520292499 9780520965980 0520292499 0520965981 PB - Oakland, Calif. University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Sociology of culture KW - anno 1980-1989 KW - anno 1970-1979 KW - Sahara KW - Egypt KW - Bedouins KW - Folk poetry, Arabic KW - Arabic poetry KW - Honor KW - Sex customs KW - Women, Bedouin KW - Social life and customs KW - History and criticism KW - Bedouin authors KW - anthropologist KW - anthropology KW - bedouin KW - community of awlad ali bedouins KW - egypt KW - ethnographic studies KW - ethnography KW - gender relations KW - international relations KW - morality KW - poems KW - poetry collection KW - sentimental KW - social normality KW - travelers KW - western desert KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - Bedouin women KW - Customs, Sex KW - Human beings KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Manners and customs KW - Moral conditions KW - Sex KW - Honour KW - Chivalry KW - Conduct of life KW - Beduins KW - Arabs KW - Ethnology KW - Nomads KW - North Africans KW - Arabic literature KW - Arabic folk poetry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32915880 AB - First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod 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. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning-for all involved-of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers. ER -