Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Anchor, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Item #263679
ISBN: 0385014856
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.
As is. Some small pencil marks in the margins of just a few pages.
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Price: $7.00
