Guests of the Sheik
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea provides an overview of the ethnography of an Iraqi village in her work, The Guests of the Sheik. Within her book, Fernea considers the element of gender and its impact on the roles of women in Iraq, as well as the expectations based within the gender-specific social constructs, Fernea, who the women of the harem call Beeja, presents experiential information about the life for both women and men, and her role within her husband’s life as it reflects upon the eastern culture. There are distinct differences within the comparisons made between Beeja and the wives of the sheik, especially Selma, and this provides for an interesting perspective about the different roles of men and women in distinct cultures.Fernea’s account comes from her own personal account of her say, with her husband, Bob, on the outskirts of a Iraqi village, and the encounters that they experienced as “guests of the sheik.” Even though Fernea and her husband were both well-respected westerners, Fernea herself recognized that the role of women within the Iraqi community would require her to conform to some of the gender-based social norms, and this was evident in her expectations of their firs meeting. After being incited by the sheik to
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Approximate Word count = 1125
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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