By Lila Abu-Lughod
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Agitated, he demanded to know who had recited it. I hesitated, suspecting that I had unwittingly betrayed something important, but when I fi nally confessed that it was the wife of one of his shepherds he was palpably relieved. He explained that the poem had to do with despair in love; she sang it because she had lost one husband and her present husband was old and about to die. I then understood that he had feared that one of his wives had recited the poem. When I reported my confession to Gatifa, the Haj's semor wife, she scolded me for my indiscretion and told me never to reveal any women's poems to men.
This sketch must serve as an introduction to a community that the reader will come to know in depth. The problem this book explores became apparent to me in the course of living with this group of people, and in part as a function of the interactions I had with them. Therefore, the reader will need some sense of the fieldwork experience before the theoretical issues are presented. Fieldwork An honest account of the circumstances of fieldwork, not merely a perfunctory note statmg the dates the anthropologist was in the host country, is, as Maybury-Lewis points out in his introduction ( 1967), both essential for the evaluation of the facts and interpreta tions presented in an ethnographic report and sometimes embar rassing.
The Haj's mother was not domineering, but she was a key figure in the camp, the ulti mate moral authority. I knew that although she liked me, she wondered what I was really doing there, and she was always a bit reserved. Her brother's funeral finally changed her attitude toward me. When we got word that he had died, I insisted on going with the women in our household to pay condolences. I found the whole scene very moving, with the wailing and "crying. "8 When I squatted before the old woman to embrace her and give her my sympathies, I found myself crying.