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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 harem. Although she shared a small mud-brick cottage with her husband, her daily life was spent only with the women of the town, for in this polygamous society there existed no social communication between the sexes.
The hardships were many but the rewards greater, especially for the readers of this extraordinary narrative: this volume gives a unique insight into a part of Middle Eadtern life seldom seen by the West -- a life of the women who have no apparent role in society, but whose thoughts and ideas are emerging with force and helping to shape modern Middle East society.
The hardships were many but the rewards greater, especially for the readers of this extraordinary narrative: this volume gives a unique insight into a part of Middle Eadtern life seldom seen by the West -- a life of the women who have no apparent role in society, but whose thoughts and ideas are emerging with force and helping to shape modern Middle East society.
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- History >> Middle East >> Iraq
- History >> Middle East >> General
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Special Groups >> Ethnic Studies
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Anthropology >> Cultural
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Jim N. (I really enjoyed this book. It gives an inside look into the life of women living behind the veils in Iraq prior to the Saddum era. It was pretty hard to put down. This was written in the late sixties, but I suspect many of the conditions these women faced are still present in the Middle East today.
Ivy This was a wonderful visit into the life of a Harem in Iraq. Gave a fairly balanced view of a very different lifestyle than we have in the US. Just loved it.
Interesting insight into the tribal societies in rural Iraq during the 60's by the wife of an anthropologist who becomes an anthropologist in her own right.
I had to read this book for my anthropology class, it's an interesting look at the women of a small Shiite village. It does move a little slow but I found it interesting to learn more about the Iraqi culture given the war right now.
This was the first ethnography from an Iraqi woman's point of view, written in the 1960's. It is a totally different world from the Iraq of today, and I found the story to be engaging and interesting.
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