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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
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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.
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The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as... [ More...]
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Following the sensational success of her first book, "Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in "Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she... [ More...]
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