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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

✍ Scribed by Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

Book ID
108991254
Publisher
Anchor
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
380 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307773784

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✦ Synopsis

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. \n \n **

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