Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780385014854
- Book Title
- Guests of the Sheik : an Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Author
- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- Middle East / Iraq, Islamic Studies, Women’s Studies, Customs & Traditions
- Item Weight
- 10.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385014856
ISBN-13
9780385014854
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159871
Product Key Features
Book Title
Guests of the Sheik : an Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Middle East / Iraq, Islamic Studies, Women’s Studies, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
1995
Features
Reprint
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
89-027687
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
306/.09567/5
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
A delightful account of one woman’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. “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. A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West., 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., A delightful account of one woman’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. “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. A wonderful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study that offers a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
LC Classification Number
HQ1735.Z9N344 1989
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