Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village - Couverture souple

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385014856 ISBN 13 : 9780385014854

Editeur : Anchor, 1995

Synopsis

Guests of the Sheik 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. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.

"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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and her husband Robert Fernea traveled to the Arab world for the first time in 1956. After writing Guests of the Sheik, her first book, Professor Fernea wrote The Arab World with Robert Fernea, as well as books about Egypt and Morocco. She also made five films about the lives of Arab women. She dies in 2008.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Anchor
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385014856
• ISBN 13: 9780385014854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368