Book

Writing women's worlds: Bedouin stories

University of California PressBerkeley • 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.
Subjects
Acculturation and culture contact
Cultural identity and pride
Music
Verbal arts
Marriage
Family
Kin relationships
Texts translated into english
culture
Libyan Bedouin
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