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Guests of the Sheik
- An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
- ナレーター: Kirsten Potter
- 再生時間: 11 時間 28 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 社会科学
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The Word for World Is Forest
- 著者: Ursula K. Le Guin
- ナレーター: Kevin Pariseau
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The planet Athshe was a paradise whose people were blessed with a mystical awareness of existence. Then the conquerors arrived and began to rape, enslave, and kill humans with a flicker of humanity. The athseans were unskilled in the ways of war, and without weapons. But the gentle tribesmen possessed strange powers over their dreams. And the alien conquerors had taught them how to hate....
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
- Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
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- ナレーター: Paul Costanzo
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes' material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them.
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Picking Up
- On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
- 著者: Robin Nagle
- ナレーター: Mary Kane
- 再生時間: 7 時間 5 分
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America’s largest city generates garbage in torrents - 11,000 tons a day on average. But New Yorkers don’t give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away.
But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he - or she - so unknown?
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The War Over Iraq
- Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission
- 著者: Lawrence F. Kaplan, William Kristol
- ナレーター: Robert Whitfield
- 再生時間: 5 時間
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In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein. They see the face of evil: someone who embraced a cruel blend of socialism, fascism, and pan-Arab nationalism when young, and later became a coup plotter and a member of the Iraqi equivalent of Hitler's Brown Shirts.
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- 著者: Anne Fadiman
- ナレーター: Pamela Xiong
- 再生時間: 13 時間 37 分
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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A Small Place
- 著者: Jamaica Kincaid
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 1 時間 48 分
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"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him - why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen..." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the 10-by-12-mile island in the British West Indies.
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The Word for World Is Forest
- 著者: Ursula K. Le Guin
- ナレーター: Kevin Pariseau
- 再生時間: 5 時間 5 分
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The planet Athshe was a paradise whose people were blessed with a mystical awareness of existence. Then the conquerors arrived and began to rape, enslave, and kill humans with a flicker of humanity. The athseans were unskilled in the ways of war, and without weapons. But the gentle tribesmen possessed strange powers over their dreams. And the alien conquerors had taught them how to hate....
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
- Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
- 著者: Seth Holmes
- ナレーター: Paul Costanzo
- 再生時間: 8 時間 24 分
- 完全版
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総合評価
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Seth M. Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes' material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them.
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Picking Up
- On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
- 著者: Robin Nagle
- ナレーター: Mary Kane
- 再生時間: 7 時間 5 分
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America’s largest city generates garbage in torrents - 11,000 tons a day on average. But New Yorkers don’t give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away.
But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he - or she - so unknown?
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The War Over Iraq
- Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission
- 著者: Lawrence F. Kaplan, William Kristol
- ナレーター: Robert Whitfield
- 再生時間: 5 時間
- 完全版
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総合評価
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In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein. They see the face of evil: someone who embraced a cruel blend of socialism, fascism, and pan-Arab nationalism when young, and later became a coup plotter and a member of the Iraqi equivalent of Hitler's Brown Shirts.
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- 著者: Anne Fadiman
- ナレーター: Pamela Xiong
- 再生時間: 13 時間 37 分
- 完全版
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総合評価
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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A Small Place
- 著者: Jamaica Kincaid
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 1 時間 48 分
- 完全版
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"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him - why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen..." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the 10-by-12-mile island in the British West Indies.
あらすじ・解説
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a unique insight into a part of the Midddle Eastern life seldom seen by the West.
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- Avalon
- 2018/01/05
Unforgettable
This well-written but unpretentious ethnography of a rural Iraqi village is the most authentic view you will ever find into the lives of women in a traditional middle eastern village, mid-20th century. Author Elizabeth Fernea, a young newlywed, follows her husband on his middle eastern doctoral research, settling in a mud hut in Al Nahra in 1956, the first western woman ever to live in the village. Like the village women, Elizabeth dons the full-length black veil and becomes immersed in the culture, secluded from the men, but making friends with the sheikh's wives in the harem. At first, she is pitied by the women (too skinny, short hair, no children), but gradually improves her Arabic and learns to navigate the culture, becoming part of the social tapestry of the village. Eventually, she is embraced by the women, who treat her as one of their own family. Her observations and insights into the daily lives of the village women provide a unique and invaluable snapshot into the sheltered lives of work, childbearing, religious observances, and plural marriage experienced by Iraqi women in that time and place. Like Elizabeth, you will be puzzled by the customs, develop empathy for the women, come to love the life, and feel her heartbreak when she has to leave. The stories are unforgettable. Both Fernea and her husband, after more than a decade in the middle east, returned to the US as college professors, and Elizabeth, also an author and filmmaker, created multiple works about her time in the middle east. Her other books include "A Street in Marrakesh" and "A View of the Nile." After leaving Al Nahra in 1958, she had a rare opportunity to catch up with some of her old village friends in 1997, the details of which you can read in "The Arab World," a book she co-wrote with her husband. Don't miss this extraordinary and unforgettable book, a seminal work about the lives of Iraqi village women in the 1950's. Although it has become a college text, it reads like a heartwarming memoir of a very special time. Thank you, Professor Fernea, for this illuminating work, and thank you, Audible, for producing the long-awaited audiobook.
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- Karley
- 2019/09/25
Good but chapters are off
The book is great but the chapters are off by so chapter 16 is actually chapter 15.
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- Suzan Lee
- 2018/12/10
Filled with insight and compassion
Despite being written in the late 50s, Guests of the Sheik feels as though it could have been written yesterday. The comparisons drawn in the mindset of the author feel as relevant today as they did back then. Full of charm and humor, the author never fails to reflect on the differences between Iraqi culture and Western culture, while taking any missteps with grace and humility.
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- jared rogerson
- 2018/07/25
Incredible. Very well written. Honest and funny.
I loved getting to know the women and seeing the bonds grow stronger. She has such a good eye and I was right there with her the whole time.
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- Michael
- 2019/01/23
Good, but limited
This was recommended to me a few years ago and I finally got around to reading it. This story gives a little perspective into life in a very small Iraqi Islamic village from an American 1950's housewife's perspective. The author's stay was about 2 years, and immersion was quite limited. This is a lot better than a travel log, but it is not a deep work. The writing is conversational and little more. It is a nice story and was worth reading, but it was limited in depth, analysis and perspective. I certainly should not be one's only perspective on life in Iraq. This is mostly the story of the effects of a 1950's era tiny Islamic Iraqi village upon a American newlywed. This could have been better if the writing was more emotional or more intense. It felt mostly honest, but a bit detached The narration was good, but less than excellent.