This thesis examines issues of intimacy, emotion and love in relationships that Tarablin Bedouins make with each other, as well as with tourists who come to the Sinai. Its analysis is qualitative its method is participant observation and involvement and its perspective is gendered, situated among women in a sexually segregated society. It considers ethnographic as well as Bedouin concepts and categories of love. Using several stories, it analyzes sexual development and the gendered nature of knowledge. It considers the invisibility of the female in theories of honour and shame which conventionally frame our understanding of Arab social structure, and compares this perspective with the Tarablin practice of invisibility. It looks at boundaries of social space between Bedouins and foreigners, and between men and women.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:504484 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Wickering, Deborah Jane |
| Publisher | University of Manchester |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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