What is the author's tone in Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society by Lila Abu-Lughod?

The tone of the book is scholarly, but the stories about individuals and their poetry soften the scholarly tone and illustrate the concepts described in anthropological terms. Many words are difficult to understand without a social sciences background, but the author takes the time to define most of the Bedouin terms and concepts.