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- Author: Steven C Caton
- Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- ISBN-10: 0809098822
- ISBN-13: 9780809098828
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 2.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict and tribal hostilities simmered for months. Yemen Chronicle is his extraordinary report both on events that ensued and on the many theoretical--let alone practical--difficulties of doing ethnography in such circumstances. Caton also offers a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture.
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- Author: Steven C Caton
- Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- ISBN-10: 0809098822
- ISBN-13: 9780809098828
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 2.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict and tribal hostilities simmered for months. Yemen Chronicle is his extraordinary report both on events that ensued and on the many theoretical--let alone practical--difficulties of doing ethnography in such circumstances. Caton also offers a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture.
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