Book Cover Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

of 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.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 368 pages
  • Publisher Anchor
  • Publication Date October 1st 1995
  • First Publication 12/31/68
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780385014854
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Non-Fiction
  • Scenario ['Iraq']

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