Oct 13, 2019
Human sexuality and Pastoral Power
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Human sexuality and Pastoral Power
—from Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, by Lila Abu-Lughod
By admitting the existence of powerful passions outside their rigid system of honor, Bedouins demonstrate that their conformity to it is voluntary.
Lila Abu-Lughod (Veiled Sentiments, edited excerpt)
In the Bedouin model of family relations, the strong care for the weak, or at least refrain from asserting dominance over them.
Lila Abu-Lughod (Veiled Sentiments, edited excerpt)
Individuals are shielded from the consequences of making statements and expressing sentiments that contravene the moral system if they do so in poetry.
Lila Abu-Lughod
Memories stirred of the beloved
should I release, I'm flooded by them...
~ Saffiya, Trans. by Abu-Lughod