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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Category: Non-Fiction

Dhs. 60.00
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea  |  Barcode: 9780385014854

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. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

"A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]--simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." --Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity.

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Pages
368
Language
English
Publisher
Anchor
Publication date
1995-10-01
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9780385014854
Dimensions
13.18 x 1.98 x 20.29 cm
Author(s)
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Dhs. 60.00

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. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

"A most enjoyable book abouut [Muslim women]--simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead." --Muhsin Mahdi, Jewett Professor of Arabic Literature, Harvard Unversity.

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