TY - GEN AU - TI - Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village SN - 0385014856 PY - 1969/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books N1 - n/29242 N2 - 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 ER -