Title: Where are the Sheik's?
Review: Guests of the Sheik : An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Fernea is a very old book, published first in 1965 and then 1969. A lot of major things have taken place in Iraq since then including the Gulf War and in its aftermath the strangling sanctions, so I find that the book although it has a catchy title does little to reflect what life in an Iraqi village is like or has been in the last decade. Although in Islam Polygamy is permitted with certain restrictions to label the whole of Iraq or even a whole village as a "polygamous society" is a stretch of the imagination. The books print is poor which doesn't help it's readability.
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