{"product_id":"yemen-chronicle-9780809098828","title":"Yemen Chronicle","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eYemen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChronicle \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven C. Caton\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University and director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is the author of \u003ci\u003eLawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845433233682,"sku":"9780809098828","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3701b23-a953-4be7-af97-9e716a613075.jpg?v=1737350788","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/yemen-chronicle-9780809098828","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}