Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society/ Lila Abu-Lughod.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999Description: xxxix, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780520224735Subject(s): Folk poetry, Arabic -- Egypt -- History and criticismDDC classification: 306.089927Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 306.089927 ABU/V (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P19430 |
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306.089914 RAO/A Autonomy: life cycle, gender, and status among Himalayan pastoralists/ | 306.089914 RAO/A Autonomy/ | 306.089927 ABU/V Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society/ | 306.089927 ABU/V Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society/ | 306.09 ARC/C Cultural history: A concise introduction/ | 306.09 COS/D Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India | 306.09 INT/G A Global Player/ |
PART ONE
The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life
TWO Identity in Relationship 39
Asl: The Blood of Ancestry 41
Gardba: 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
Limits on Power 99
Hasham: 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
Hasham 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
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
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