Veiled Sentiments by Abu-Lughod, Lila -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Dedication Acknowledgments A Note On Transcriptions ONE: Guest and Daughter

The Community Fieldwork Poetry and Sentiment

PART ONE: The Ideology of Bedouin Social Life TWO: Identity in Relationship

Aṣl: The Blood of Ancestry Garāba: The Blood of Relationship Maternal Ties and a Common Life Identification and Sharing Identity in a Changing World

THREE: Honor and the Virtues of Autonomy

Autonomy and Hierarchy The Family Model of Hierarchy Honor: The Moral Basis of Hierarchy Limits on Power Ḥasham: Honor of the Weak

FOUR: Modesty, Gender, and Sexuality

Gender Ideology and Hierarchy The Social Value of Male and Female The "Natural" Bases of Female Moral Inferiority Red Belts and Black Veils: The Symbolism of Gender and Sexuality Sexuality and the Social Order Ḥasham Reconsidered: Deference and the Denial of Sexuality The Meaning of Veiling

PART TWO: Discourses on Sentiment FIVE: The Poetry of Personal Life

On Poetry in Context The Poetry of Self and Sentiment

SIX: Honor and Poetic Vulnerability

Discourses on Loss Matters of Pride Responding to Death The Discourse of Honor

SEVEN: Modesty and the Poetry of Love

Discourses on Love Star-Crossed Lovers An Arranged Marriage Marriage, Divorce, and Polygyny

EIGHT: Ideology and the Politics of Sentiment

The Social Contexts of Discourse Protective Veils of Form The Meaning of Poetry The Politics of Sentiment Ideology and Experience

Ethnography's Values: An Afterword Appendix: Formulas and Themes of the Ghinnawa Notes Bibliography Index