Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• 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 Ghinnāwa
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
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