Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Guests of the Sheik
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village | Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
2 posts | 6 read | 5 to read
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Amiable
post image
Pickpick

Excellent account of a time (late 1950s) and a place (a rural village in Iraq) by the author, who lived here with her anthropologist husband while he was doing sociological research. Thanks to @LeahBergen for bringing this one to my attention months ago!

LeahBergen Oh! 👏🏻👏🏻 I‘m glad you liked it, too! 3y
Amiable @LeahBergen Fernea was such an excellent writer —she managed to capture relevant sociological details in a way that wasn‘t dry or academic. Thoroughly enjoyed it! 3y
57 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
oh.opheliaaa

i loved this book. a fun little ethnography!

KateFulfordAuthor If you‘ve space —— May I recommend my debut as a future read? See my bio for all the links you need. Thanks, Kate 6y
10 likes1 comment