6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Foreigners Like Things Looking Old and Dark, Not Shiny 1
5. 2. Mimesis, Kinship, Gift, and Other Things That Bind Us in Love and Desire 28
6. 3. “Why Can’t You Study Respectable Women?” 60
7. 4. Mimesis, Genre, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East Tourism 74
8. 5. Demimonde: Belly Dancers, Extramarital Affairs, and the Respectability of Women 99
9. 6. Gift, Prostitute: Money and Intimacy 125
10. 7. “Honor Killing”: On Anthropological Writing in an International Political Economy of Representations 137
11. 8. Kinship, Honor, and Shame 156
12. 9. Love, Revolution, and Intimate Violence 193
13. Epilogue. Fifteen Years Later 210
14. Notes 224
15. References 227
16. Index 240