Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society by Lila Abu-Lughod

By Lila Abu-Lughod

First released in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has develop into a vintage ethnography within the box of anthropology. through the overdue Nineteen Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties, Abu-Lughod lived with a group of Bedouins within the Western barren region of Egypt for almost years, learning gender relatives, morality, and the oral lyric poetry during which girls and younger males show own emotions. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional existence vibrant. yet Abu-Lughod’s research additionally unearths how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are within the play of strength and the upkeep of social hierarchy. What starts as a puzzle a couple of unmarried poetic style turns into a mirrored image at the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture.
 
This 30th anniversary version encompasses a new afterword that displays on advancements either in anthropology and within the lives of this neighborhood of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who locate themselves more and more enmeshed in nationwide political and social formations. The afterword ends with a private meditation at the meaning—for all involved—of the unconventional adventure of anthropological fieldwork and the obligations it involves for ethnographers.

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