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Guests of the Sheik

Paperback • 1989 • English

Guests of the Sheik: An ethnography of an Iraqi village

By Elisabeth Warnock

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About the book

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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9780385014854

Published year

1989

Language

English

Original title

Guests of the Sheik

Format

Paperback

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