Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Fernea E. W.
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village - New York: Anchor Books, 1969. - 346 p.
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A delightful, extremely well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, "Guests of the Sheik is an account of the author`s two-year stay in the tiny rural village of EL Nahra in southern Iraq. To help her anthropologist husband gather data, Mrs. Fernea agreed to dress only in the all-enveloping black veils of the women of the Middle East and to lead the sheltered life of the women of the harem....
0385014856
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village - New York: Anchor Books, 1969. - 346 p.
n/29242
A delightful, extremely well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, "Guests of the Sheik is an account of the author`s two-year stay in the tiny rural village of EL Nahra in southern Iraq. To help her anthropologist husband gather data, Mrs. Fernea agreed to dress only in the all-enveloping black veils of the women of the Middle East and to lead the sheltered life of the women of the harem....
0385014856