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Veiled Sentiments

Paperback ā€¢ 2016 ā€¢ 1. edition

Veiled Sentiments

By Lila Abu-Lughod

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About the book

First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, 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 Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply i...Show more

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9780520292499

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Veiled Sentiments

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Paperback

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