Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society PDF
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We1led �ent1inents HONOR AND POETRY IN A BEDOUIN SOCIETY Thirtieth Anniversary Edition With a New Afterword LILA ABU-LUGHOD Q3 University ef California Press VEILED SENTIMENTS We1led �ent1inents HONOR AND POETRY IN A BEDOUIN SOCIETY Thirtieth Anniversary Edition With a New Afterword LILA ABU-LUGHOD Q3 University ef California Press UniversoifCt ayli fornPirae sosn,e o ft hem ostd istinguuinsihveedr sity presses int heU niteSdt ateensr,i chleisva erso untdh ew orlbdy a dvancisncgh olarisnh ip theh umanitsioecsi,sa cli encaensd, natsucriaeln cIetassc. t iviatriese usp portbeyd theU C PresFso undataionndb y philanthropic cfornotmir nidbiuvtiidounasl s andi nstituFtoirom nosr.ei nformatviiosnwi,wt w .upcress.edu. UniversoifCt ayl iforPnrieas s OaklanCda,l ifornia © 19862,0 16b yT heR egentosft heU niversoifCt ayl ifornia ISBN9 78-0-520-29(p2a4p9e-)r9 ISBN9 78-0-520-96(5e9b8o-o0k ) Portioonfts h iwso rko riginaapllpye arien"d H onoarn dt heS entimeonftL so ss ina B edouiSno ci,e"tA ymerican Ethnologist 12n,o .2 (1958)2:4 5-6r1e,p rinted herbey k inpde rmissoifot nh eA mericAannt hropoloAgsiscoacli ation. PhotograLpihlsAa:b u-LughoAdn/t hro-Photo TheL ibraorfCy o ngrehsassc ataloagnee da rleideirt ioofnt hibso okas follows: LibraorfyC ongreCsast aloging-in-PuDbaltiac ation Abu-LuhgodL,i la. Veilseedn timents. Bibliograpp.h y: Includiensd ex. l. Bedouins-Egypt-Sloicfaiena dlc ustoms2..F olpko et,rA ryabic Egypt-HistaonrdCy r iticis3m.B. e douins-Egypt-Folk4l.Ho orneo.r Folklor5e.S. e xc ustoms-Egyp6t.W. o men-Egypt.I T.i tle. DT72.B¢28 1986 306.10 899278 6-6948 ISBN9 78-0-520-22(4p7b3:k-a 5l kp.a pe)r Manufactuirnte hde U niteSdt atoefAs m erica 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 IO 9 8 7 6 4 5 3 2 To my parents CONTENTS Acknowledgments Xl A Note on Transcriptions xv ONE Guest and Daughter The Community Fieldwork 9 Poetry and Sentiment 24 PART ONE The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life Identity in Relationship TWO 39 A�l: The Blood of Ancestry 41 Garaba: The Blood of Relationship 49 Maternal Ties and a Common Life 59 Identification and Sharing 65 Identity in a Changing World 70 THREE Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy 78 Autonomy and Hierarchy 78 The Family Model of Hierarchy 81 Honor: The Moral Basis of Hierarchy 85 Vil Contents Limits on Power 99 J:Iasham: Honor of the Weak 103 FOUR Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality 118 Gender Ideology and Hierarchy 118 The Social Value of Male and Female 119 The "Natural" Bases of Female Moral Inferiority 124 Red Belts and Black Veils: The Symbolism of Gender and Sexuality 134 Sexuality and the Social Order 143 J:Iasham Reconsidered: Deference and the Denial of Sexuality 152 The Meaning of Veiling 159 PART TWO Discourses on Sentiment FIVE The Poetry of Personal Life 171 On Poetry in Context 171 The Poetry of Self and Sentiment 177 SIX Honor and Poetic Vulnerability 186 Discourses on Loss 186 Matters of Pride 187 Responding to Death 197 The Discourse of Honor 204 SEVEN Modesty and the Poetry of Love 208 Discourses on Love 208 Star-Crossed Lovers 209 viii Contents An Arranged Marriage 215 Marriage, Divorce, and Polygyny 222 EIGHT Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment 233 The Social Contexts of Discourse 234 Protective Veils of Form 238 The Meaning of Poetry 240 The Politics of Sentiment 248 Ideology and Experience 255 Ethnography's Values: An Afterword 261 Appendix: Formulas and Themes of the Chinnawa 303 Notes 315 Bibliography 339 Index 351 ix
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