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Guests of the sheik : an ethnography of an Iraqi village / Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.
LIBRA DS70.7 .F47 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, 1927-2008.
- Series:
- Doubleday anchor books
- A Doubleday anchor book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Iraq.
- Women.
- Iraq--Social life and customs.
- Iraq.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 346 pages : map ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Anchor books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N. Y. : Anchor books, [publisher not identified], 1969, c1965.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0385014856
- OCLC:
- 186758293
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