An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village Fernea E. W. creator -us New York Anchor Books 1969 eng 346 p. 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.... n/29242 0385014856 101228 20260805123650.0 00000000000041677