Full name: Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Year: 1968 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Anthropology, Non Fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385014854 0385014856

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. Similar books: The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd Sky Burial by Xinran The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane Unfathomable City by Rebecca Solnit The Lost Amazon by Wade Davis Journey through Britain by John Hillaby In Asia by Tiziano Terzani Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier by Terry Darlington Hidden Mickeys by Steven Barrett 1001 Natural Wonders by Michael Bright Londoners by Craig Taylor Travels on my Elephant by Mark Shand Voyage of a Summer Sun by Robin Cody More Mouse Tales by David Koenig The River's Tale by Edward Gargan The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss Steak by Mark Schatzker Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World by Alec Le Sueur Bringing Tuscany Home by Frances Mayes