Guests of the Sheik

An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
ISBN: 9780385014854

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.

Publisher: Doubleday
Publish Date: 1989

Subjects: History / General, History / Middle East / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Middle-East/Desi Studies (MEDS))