num_pages: 368
description: 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.
language: English
title: Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
titlecomplete: Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
genres: History, Islam, Travel, Religion, Biography, School, Ethnography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 3072
places: Iraq
publisher: Anchor