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    Honor and the Sentiments of Loss in a Bedouin Society Lila Abu-Lughod American Ethnologist, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1985), 245-261. Stable URL: http flinksjstor.orgsici?sick=0494 £4196 28198505%20 12988 2%9C245%3 AHATSOL@3B2.0,CO®IB2-2 American Ethnologist is currently published by American Anthropological Association Your use of the ISTOR archive indicates your acceptance of ISTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at flip: feworwjtor org/aboutterms.htmal. ISTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in par, that unless you fave obtained pcior permission, you may not dowaload an cnt isus of @ journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content inthe ISTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial uss. Please contact the publisher cegarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at bhupsferwer.jstor.org/joumals/anthro.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transtnission. ISTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding ISTOR, please contact support @jstor.org- up:thrww itor orgy ‘Mon Sep 27 11:32:32 2004 honor and the sentiments of loss in a Bedouin society LILA ABU-LUGHOD—Witliams College 1984 Stating Award for Conteibutions ta Psychological Anthronalogy Saliyya, a middle-aged Enyptian Bedouin woman, talked about her divorce tram the man to whom she had ueen maried for 20 years My youngest daughter was using in my ares when ne etme twas sick and ted “The man’ came upto me one steron 2s sat by the oven He ai, ou" dwotced Tad, "Tanks hats ost me faye" did't want him don wart ayitng am him except bud me ahaute ove nth ry sons place where can fel ae home, cnt care when he vores me. never ied im. He had {then srsher we but hat dnt other me. never fought wth Why shoud? These things dont boners ‘Yer twa days late, when a conversation between Saiyya and several other women in het household wened tothe whereabouts of her exchusband, away on ap at the time, she sud deniy rected the following shor poem:" Marexis steed by mention ofthe beloved thats sin Sone ‘foul velease, Fa find mye loaded Al nashal bin ‘The frst time I had met her had been with another young worran, an Egyptian university student. Salivya had asked either of us was mamed. Bath of us eeplied inthe negative. She leaned over and advised us earnestly, “Dont eves get married. What would you want with marriage? Men are just sons of bitches. They do you ro good." A few months ater had begun living nthe cornmunity, Ishowed my taperecardectoa group of wornen for thefstiime, Some volunteered ta sing, including Safiya. The song she offered was the following ‘Oh eyes te trong varsar dian “azn ‘you cherish pepe and then they're gore fehl arab wyfarga CS EEE Seginning with the observation that among the Awlad Ali Bedlouins of the Egyp~ tian Western Desert individuals respand to personal loss with two contradictory Sets of sentiments, one expressed in ordinary language and public interactions and the othe: expressed in a form of poignant lyric poeuy spontaneously recited in intimate contexts, this paper explares the significance of the coexistence of dis Metaphors a ilinessaounded inthe poems of various other Kinsmen and kinswomen. The cts sister sang.a poem refering to her il healt resuking rom the fss Yau etme, ch loved one fats ana tn trated, uted and heathy tat ima 88 His widow recited several poems late one right. Her closest friends were surprised, saying that they had never heard her recite poetry before, These were ro oF her poems I ane fl of dessa nan th yasat shaveme what medichnecoutd curethismatady... watunt cw daha asmuh Drowning in dese lien gharge yas the eye says, oh my destiny in Love ‘gal y8 nag Highs “The despair to which che referted also appeared in the poem of a clase kinswoman: Forgotten nota single day ‘tag ma sum yawn gabra Justa patent mastering of despair imgher dai yashurn These poems gave voice to the anguish and pain caused by the death. People described symptoms of physical distress, crying, discupted sfeea, brooding, and sensing of the presence ‘of the dead, as well 2s apathy and despair. These bear a close resemblance ta the aective and behavioral responses reported in studies of bereaverment (Matrs 1974; Rosenblar, Walsh, and Jackson 1976). These studies also ind cate that hostility an element of bereavernent, Mares mentions hostility, and Rosenblatt etal. anger, as part of the range of reactions canmnonly ex: pressed, While the Bedouin poetic or ritualized discourse zarely caried bellicase threats and sentiments of anges, their expression in ordinary discourse supgests that Awlad “AM expressed the range of sentiments associated with bereavement and loss but in 2 culturally regulated and onhaphazard way. ‘Thisdistlbution of types of sentiments into distinct discourses seems culturally specific, put- ting inta question psychological theories which assume the universality of human reactions to

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