Full name: The Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village

Author: Erika Friedl Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Anthropology, Non Fiction, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140149937 0140149937

"Masterful . . . absorbing. This finely written book gives us a whole new sense of Iran."--The Washington Post Book World While doing research in the Iranian village of Deh Koh, Erika Friedl was able to quietly observe and record the cloistered lives of women in one of the strictest of all Muslim societies. In this fascinating book, Friedl recounts these women's personal stories as they relate the strain of their daily activities, their intricate relationships with men, and their hopes, dreams, and fears. Women of Deh Koh is a rare and vivid look at what life is really like for the women of Iran. "Her intimate understanding of the life and customs of the village has made her confident about conveying her view from the inside. To share this view with us, and to comment quietly and wisely on the scene, is the striking and illuminating achievement of Women of Deh Koh."--The New York Times Book Review Similar books: Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier My Cocaine Museum by Michael Taussig Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris Exit Zero by Christine J. Walley Yemen Chronicle by Steven C. Caton Two Bits by Christopher M. Kelty The Way We Are by Margaret Visser Male and Female by Margaret Mead The Iranians by Sandra Mackey Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes The World We Used to Live In by Vine Deloria Jr. People of the Deer by Farley Mowat Rethinking Psychiatry by Arthur Kleinman Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes The Scars of Evolution by Elaine Morgan Hubbub by Emily Cockayne Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria The Desert Smells Like Rain by Gary Paul Nabhan The Forest of Symbols by Victor Turner