Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

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Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Verlag:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: PG836R6

EAN: 9780385014854

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Beschreibung

A delightful account of one woman's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. "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. A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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