Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

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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.

Book Details

ISBN13	9780385014854
ISBN10	0385014856
Series/Work	OL2693507W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Anchor
Language	EN-US
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	January 30, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

Iraq, social life and customs Manners and customs Social life and customs Travel Women

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