Book
Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Abu-Lughod, Lila.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Northern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field Date
- 1978-1989
- Coverage Date
- 1978-1989
- Coverage Place
- Western Desert, Egypt
- Notes
- Lila Abu-Lughod
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266) and index
- LCSH
- Bedouins