Thursday, June 26, 2008

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village


Curious about the life of Muslim women in the 1950's in Iraq? Trained as a journalist, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea travels with her anthropologist husband to a conservative Shiite village of El Nahra. She involves herself in the daily lives of the village women. For a year and a half, she lives as the native women do, in purdah, veiled from head to foot.
Check it out at the High Library!
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