Yemen chronicle
Subtitle: an anthropology of war and mediation
By: Steven C. Caton
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780809027255; 9780809098828
Subjects: Social life and customs; Anthropologues; Mœurs et coutumes; Biographies; Biography; Anthropologists
Description: In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict and tribal hostilities simmered for months. Yemen Chronicle is his extraordinary report both on events that ensued and on the many theoretical--let alone practical--difficulties of doing ethnography in such circumstances. Caton also offers a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture--Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Graveside; title: Sanctuary; title: "Anger be now thy song"; title: "We are all one"; title: Interlude; title: Muhammad the Maswari; title: War; title: An idyll; title: Prisoner of the state; title: Ramadan nights; title: Farewell; title: Travel advisory; title: Epilogue: Hope.