Book
Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Abu-Lughod, Lila.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In what she calls 'writing against culture,' Abu-Lughod has written an ethnography that preserves the voice of the Bedouin women with whom she lived. She has transcribed hours of women's conversations and organized the material around five major subjects: patrilineality, polygyny, reproduction, patrilateral parallel-cousin marriage, and honor and shame. In the last chapter, Abu-Lughod discusses an essay about Bedouin culture written by one of the first women of the tribe to receive a secondary education.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural identity and pride
- Music
- Verbal arts
- Marriage
- Family
- Kin relationships
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Libyan Bedouin
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1978-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Western Desert, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lila Abu-Lughod
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bedouins