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.
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Draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. This work 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.
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List of Illustrations Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Keeping the Names Straight Introduction ONE Patrilineality TWO Polygyny THREE Reproduction FOUR Patrilateral Parallel-Cousin Marriage FIVE Honor and Shame Transcriptions of Arabic Poems and Songs Bibliography
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ISBN
9780520256514
Publisert
2008-04-07
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

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.