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008 890913s1989 nyu 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHQ1735.Z9$bN344 1989
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aFernea, Elizabeth Warnock,$d1927-2008,$eauthor.
245 10 $aGuests of the Sheik :$ban ethnography of an Iraqi village /$cElizabeth Warnock Fernea.
250 $aAnchor Books editions
264 1 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c1989.
300 $a346 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aNight journey: arrival in the village -- The sheik's harem -- Women of the tribe -- Women of the town -- Gypsies -- Housekeeping in El Nahra -- Problems of purdah -- I meet the sheik -- Ramadan -- The feast -- Moussa's house -- Weddings -- Salima -- One wife or four -- Summer -- Hussein -- Muharram -- Pilgrimage to Karbala -- Autumn -- An excursion into the country -- Winter -- Jabbar becomes engaged -- Death in the tribe and in the town -- At home in El Nahra -- Back to Baghdad -- Leave-taking.
520 0 $aA 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.
520 1 $aThe book begins with newlywed Fernea's journey with her husband to the village where they will be living. It speaks of her misgivings about being such an outsider, entering such an unfamiliar environment, and shows her resentment at beginning her marriage living in a two-room mud hut with no plumbing. The story is one of a U.S. woman learning how to live in an environment which is entirely alien to her. […] Her description of village life is very much filtered through her own perceptions as a 1950's-era American woman. […] It is a story not only of rural Iraqi culture, but also of Fernea's personal development as she learns how to fit in. As the story unfolds, Fernea covers her observations of the day-to-day life of the women in the tribe, the process of slowly making friends with them as she learns their language, and the local Shiite religious observances that she had the opportunity to observe. She talks about the veiling of women, the practice of polygamy in that village, the hard manual labor that is part of everyone's life, the religious customs, the food that people eat, the structure of society, and the encroachment of modern "civilized" life on the traditional rural culture. -- From http://www.shira.net/ (Nov. 15, 2016).
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650 0 $aWomen$zIraq$zNahr.
651 0 $aNahr (Iraq)$xSocial life and customs.
650 7 $aManners and customs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01007815
650 7 $aWomen.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01176568
651 7 $aIraq$zNahr.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01252593
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