1st Edition
Daughters of Allah Among Moslem Women in Kurdistan
By Henry Harold Hansen
Copyright 1960
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 1957, Henny Harald Hansen, the first Danish female anthropologist, was invited to take part in an archaeological expedition to the site of the projected Dokan Dam on the Little Zab river in Northern Iraq. Although her responsibilities were originally ethnological, she became the guest first of the local sheik and later of her interpreter’s family and as a result, the doors of many Kurdish... Read more
Introduction; 1. A Year Without a Summer 2. Here Comes the Bride 3. My Kurdish Costume 4. A Child and a Servant 5. The Child that Died 6. Snakes and Scorpions 7. ‘Granny, are you going to be a Cowboy?’ 8. Beggars and Magicians 9. Perpetual Fire 10. The Waterless Village 11. Illiteracy 12. Allah’s Daughters 13. Farewell; Index
Biography
Henny Harald Hansen
