Fernea E. W. <br/><br/>
Guests of the Sheik:  An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village 

 - New York:  Anchor Books,  1969. 
 - 346 p. 
<br/><br/> n/29242 
<br/><br/> 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.... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385014856