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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

by Elizabeth Wa Fernea

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ISBN13: 9780385014854
ISBN10: 0385014856
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A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.
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Amy Houchen, February 3, 2009 (view all comments by Amy Houchen)
Although this book was written more than forty years ago, it's still very much worth reading for its perspective on the life of women in an traditional village in Iraq.
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ISBN:
9780385014854
Subtitle:
An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Author:
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock
Author:
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Middle East
Subject:
Anthropology - Cultural
Subject:
Sociology, anthropology and archaeology
Subject:
Anthropology
Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Subject:
Iraq
Subject:
Iraq Social life and customs.
Subject:
Nahr (Iraq) Social life and customs.
Subject:
Nahr
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - General
Subject:
Women -- Iraq -- Nahr.
Copyright:
c196
Edition Number:
Anchor Books ed.
Edition Description:
Anchor Books
Series Volume:
A370
Publication Date:
October 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
8.06x5.23x.78 in. .63 lbs.
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