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Yemen Chronicle

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by Steven C. Caton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven C. CatonPublish date:2006-10-03Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780809098828ISBN-10:809098822UPC:9780809098828Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, AnthropologyBook Topic:Arabian Peninsula, Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCGYRYYT4H

Yemen Chronicle

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780809098828ISBN-10:809098822UPC:9780809098828Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, AnthropologyBook Topic:Arabian Peninsula, Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCGYRYYT4H

Steven C. Caton, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University and director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is the author of Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.


Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

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