Title: Yemen chronicle
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Anthropologues, Mœurs et coutumes, Biographies, Anthropologists, Biography, Yemen, Arab countries, social life and customs, Islam and culture
Places: United States, Yemen (Republic), États-Unis, Yémen
People: Steven Charles Caton (1950-)