Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod
ISBN-13: 9780520256514, ISBN-10: 0520256514
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: April 2008
Edition: 2nd Edition
Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Veiled Sentiments (UC Press) and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt. She is the editor of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East and the coeditor, most recently, of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory.
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
Abu-Lughod incorporates stories by Bedouin women into a critique of traditional ethnography. (Nov.)
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Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Keeping the Names Straight | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Patrilineality | 45 |
2 | Polygyny | 87 |
3 | Reproduction | 127 |
4 | Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin Marriage | 167 |
5 | Honor and Shame | 205 |
Transcriptions of Arabic Poems and Songs | 243 | |
Bibliography | 257 |