Why read Women and Community in Oman?

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Before 1970 Oman was one of teh more isolated countries on the Arab peninsula. The growth of the oil economy during the seventies, however, has brought rapid change to the small towns and villages that make up the country.
In Women and Community in Oman Chritine Eickelman captures the tone…

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Christiane Bird

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In 1979 anthropologist Eickelman, together with her husband and 19-month-old daughter, took up residency in Hamra, a small village on the edge of the Jabal al-Akhdar mountains in Oman’s interior.

Here she befriended the village women, witnessed their daily lives and traditions, and learned about how they were coping with the modernization rapidly overtaking their society. The women she describes are self-confident, reserved, thoughtful, and polite—much like the women I met while traveling in Oman.

Eickelman’s book is a valuable record of a disappearing world.

From Christiane's list on the intriguing country of Oman.