TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abu-Lughod,Lila
TI  - Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society 
SN  - 0520224736 (pbk.) :
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Bedouins
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Folk poetry, Arabic
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Honor
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Women
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 297-307
N2  - 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
ER  -