Women and Community in Oman

Women and Community in Oman
Christine Eickelman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1985 •  PAPER  • 251 PAGES

A lively firsthand account by an American woman of life in the remote Omani village of Hamra. Eickelman lived among the people of Hamra for over a year and her account of daily life there focuses on the shifting roles of rural Omani women in the wake of the oil boom of the 1970s.  (ARB120, $21.50)





 
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