Guests of the Sheik Ethnography

Guests of the Sheik Ethnography

In the 1950's, a newly-married American woman named Elizabeth Warnock Fernea accompanied her husband to a rural Iraqi village, where he was performing field research for his doctorate in anthropology. This book describes her experiences. The adjustment for her was profound, because she lived in a mud hut with no indoor plumbing, didn't speak the local language, and found it advisable to wear the veil in order to fit in with the local conservative Islamic community.

In this book, the author covers the day-to-day life of the women in the tribe, the ...