Summary Of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's Guests Of The Sheik

It is important to note that Elizabeth Warnock Fernea herself is a brilliant writer, and her piece of Guests of the Sheik offers a very in debt analysis of an Iraqi village that would not be seen from most outsiders. How while Fernea concedes the fact that she is not an anthropologist she was married to one and the first two years of their marriage they lived in an Iraqi village called El Nahra. Since she lived in a village that has hardly any social contact between men and women, Fernea is able to give us a beautiful account of what the women’s life style, roles, and other aspects of a women’s life in an Iraqi village. While women are not treated incredibly badly there lifestyle was a lot different than the one an American woman would live. One of the primary directions of Fernea’s study are to show how the author could be credible in ultimately idealizing her culture and peoples in this ethnography. She uses her Self authority to convince the reader of that and her interactions with other women. The

She uses a few case studies; the lack of interaction between her and men of El Nahra shows great aspects of their culture and the relationship between men and women in their society. Fernea mostly adopted every oriental aspect in living in the Nahra to be able to understand people more and also wanting not to be seen odd in the village. Ultimately she relies on personal interaction with other women to describe the way they talked, lived, and behaved. The way she was able to adapt to a whole different societies norms she had to change with the way she viewed a different group of people. In the words of Muhsin Mahdi writes his opinion on the cover page saying “that this book is a “ most enjoyable book about ( Muslim Women)-simple, dignified, human, colorful, sad and humble as the life they lead.” (Cover