Publication

1988-02-11 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

79,250 words, Guess

Page Count

317 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveveiledsentiments00lila
  • ISBN-100520063279
  • ISBN-139780520063273
  • Goodreads584945
  • LibraryThing163027
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  • Better World Books9780520063273
  • Open LibraryOL7709259M

Description

Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations 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 her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.

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  • Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin SocietyPaperbackUniversity of California Press1988-02-11
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